One common way in which social interaction scaffolds cognition is through communication.
This chapter explores the role of communication and shared communication protocols in …

Communication, linguistic or otherwise, is the single most frequent type of human
interaction, and the most important too. This importance stems from the fact that human …

A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of
the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian …

How did human language evolve? This is a fascinating question and Gong, Shuai & Wu [1]
are correct: an interdisciplinary approach which recognises that language is a mosaic of …

Language is a collective activity of the first order (Clark and Brennan 1993) involving the
cooperative endeavor of multiple individuals to communicate with each other. Language …

How communication systems emerge and remain stable is an important question in both
cognitive science and evolutionary biology. For communication to arise, not only must …

Animals communicate by exchanging signals that contain information. The type and amount
of information contained in a signal is restricted and shaped by long lasting evolutionary …

This volume brings together diverse and divergent essays on communication as viewed by
outstanding scholars in various disciplines. The authors review the mainstream of each …

A unique hallmark of human language is that it uses signals that are both learnt and
symbolic. The emergence of such signals was therefore a defining event in human cognitive …

The unifying theme of this book is that communication is an underlying fabric of life, as
fundamental as matter and energy are to our world and, more importantly, to our …