A NEW THEORY OF LANGUAGE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE QUESTION OF EVOLUTION
A NEW THEORY OF LANGUAGE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE QUESTION OF EVOLUTION
复制标题
一种新的语言理论及其对进化问题的启示
DOI：
10.1142/9789814295222_0015
复制
发表时间：
2010
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
E. Jablonka
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
D. Dor;E. Jablonka
在一系列的文章（Dor and Jablonka 2000，2001，2004，即将出版）中，我们认为语言进化的整个过程从一开始就受到语言作为社会构建的交流技术的文化进化的驱动。新技术从根本上改变了人类社会，个人的生存最终（越来越多地）取决于个人参与语言活动的能力，个人开始因其语言能力而被选择（行为上，认知上，情感上，最终，遗传上）。基于进化论的一些最新发展（West-Eberhard 2003，Jablonka和Lamb 2005），我们的模型从对创新作用的新理解开始，对这一过程的生物认知方面提供了明确的表征（特别是社会创新）在进化过程中，最后是参与创新性社会活动（如语言活动）所需能力的部分遗传适应所涉及的发展复杂性。然而，该模型也基于语言作为通信技术的程序化原型理论（Dor 1999，2000，2005），因此，就语言本身的社会演变而言，它仍然处于程序化水平。在Dor（2009）中，该程序最终成熟为一个成熟的理论，它允许构建一个明确的假设性叙述，描述将语言技术从发明的那一刻带到目前状态的社会过程。在我们的演讲中，我们将开始概述
In a series of articles (Dor and Jablonka 2000, 2001, 2004, forthcoming), we have argued that the entire process of the evolution of language was driven, from the very beginning, by the cultural evolution of language as a sociallyconstructed communication technology. The new technology changed human societies in such fundamental ways, that individual survival eventually came to depend (more and more) on the individual's ability to participate in the activities of language and individuals began to be selected (behaviorally, cognitively, emotionally and, eventually, genetically) for their linguistic capacities. Based on some of the most recent developments in Evolutionary Theory (West-Eberhard 2003, Jablonka and Lamb 2005), our model provided an explicit characterization of the biological-cognitive side of the process beginning with a new understanding of the role of innovation (and particularly social innovation) in evolutionary processes, and ending with the developmental complexities involved in the partial genetic accommodation of the capacities required for the participation in innovative social activities, such as the activity of language. The model, however, was also based on a programmatic proto-theory of language as a communication technology (Dor 1999, 2000, 2005), and because of that, it remained at the programmatic level in terms of the social evolution of language itself. In Dor (2009), the program finally matured into a full-fledged theory, which allows for the construction of an explicit hypothetical narration of the social process that brought the technology of language from its moment of invention to its current state. In our talk, then, we will begin with an overview of