{"product_id":"functional-dimensions-of-ape-human-discourse-2","title":"Functional Dimensions of Ape-Human Discourse","description":"\u003cb\u003e PAPERBACK PUBLISHED JULY 2009\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFunctional Dimensions of Ape-Human Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e asks the question ‘what do interactions between apes and humans mediated by language tell us?’. In order to answer this question the authors explore language-in-context, drawing on a multi-leveled, multi-functional linguistics. The levels are context of culture, context of situation, semantics, lexicogrammar, and phonology; and the functions are ideational, interpersonal, and textual.\u003cbr\u003e\nChapter One discusses a negotiation between the bonobo Kanzi and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh in terms of discourse-semantics and the ideational and interpersonal metafunctions of lexicogrammar. Chapter Two reinterprets Sue Savage-Rumbaugh \u003ci\u003eet. al. Language Comprehension in Ape and Child\u003c\/i\u003e (1993) in terms of the ideational metafunction, and provides corroborative evidence for Kanzi’s symbolic processing abilities, opening a window into the consciousness of at least one non-human primate. Chapter Three compares three snapshots from comprehensive studies based on large amounts of data (monkey calls, language development in a human child, and a dialogue between Kanzi’s sibling Panbanisha and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh) from an evolutionary perspective, showing different ways in which the level of grammar comes to be wedged in between semantics and expression. Chapter Four articulates a methodology incorporating public domain software for the comprehensive analysis of ape-human interaction. Although bonobo-human interaction is used as an example, the methodology could be utilized for studies of chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"James D. Benson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54970085802364,"sku":"9781845536534","price":33.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781845536534_a3586c81-dc4e-465a-8801-51a9b50b3422.jpg?v=1740402930","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/functional-dimensions-of-ape-human-discourse-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}