Ditto for Terrence Deacon's *The Symbolic Species: The co-evolution of language and the human brain,* which relies heavily and explicitly on Peirce for an explanation of how words come to mean anything at all, and how humans get that. It's an excellent integration of Peircean thought into a theory about language evolution.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 11:05 AM, Clark Goble <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jun 14, 2018, at 6:06 AM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > > I came across a Ted talk by Dan E with the title > "How language began". At the halfway mark (9 minutes) > he mentions Peirce and relates his semiotic to the issues: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFxg5vkaPgk > > My only comment would be that there was probably some > kind of vocalization a few million years earlier. > > Chimpanzees in the wild use gestures to communicate among > themselves. When Australopithecus began to walk upright, > they could carry stuff (food, weapons, and babies). Sounds > would be a useful supplement when their hands were full. > > > Some of Tomasello’s writings end up adopting fairly Peircean ideas along > those lines. So far as I can recall he never mentions Peirce nor thirdness > but much of his work ends up tied to a more robust thirdness leading to > language. As I recall *The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition* has a lot > of Peircean-like elements to it. > > > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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