Items for "symbolic communication"

Walking and talking: Traces of the body in the grammar and lexis of spontaneous spoken English

In recent years there has been much conjecture on the origins of language, and it has been suggested that current linguistic phenomena such as motherese, pidgin languages or homesigns created by deaf children of non-signing parents offer us a window on the origins and evolution of language...

Keywords: Language evolution, symbolic communication, mirror neurons, systemic functional linguistics, spontaneous spoken language, multi-word verbs