evolutionary or darwinian
Morante
Laureano
Manuel
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Darwin's Theory of Evolution
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The Origin Of Language
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History of Social Darwinism
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And What Is Evolutionary or Darnian linguistic
- Evolution is the change take place over a period of time.
FULL NAME: CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN
BIRTHPLACE: ENGLAND
BIRTHDATE: FEBRUARY 12, 1809
:social Darwinism pre-Darwinian theorists had compared
languages to living organism as a metaphor, the
comparison was first taken literally in 1863 by the
historical linguist August Schleicher who was inspired by
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
Darwin started thinking about the origin of language in the late
1830s. The subject formed part of his wide-ranging speculations
about the transmutation of species. In his private notebooks, he
reflected on the communicative powers of animals, their ability to
learn new sounds and even to associate them with words. “The
distinction of language in man is very great from all animals”, he
wrote, “but do not everrate- animals communicate each other”
(Barrett ed. 1987,p. 542-3)
The Origin of language is was widely studied and controversially
debated in the victorian period in a variety of fields, including
comparative philology and linguistics, philosophy, anthropology,
and psychology.
included Darwin’s cousin, HENSLEIGH WEDGWOOD
FREDERIC FARRAR, the liberal Anglican scholar
AUGUST SCHLEICHER, the German philologist
WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY, the American
philologist.
Other argued that language was uniquely human, a
manifestation of man’s higher nature and an
instrument of his reason.
Evolutionary Linguistic
Evolutionary linguistics or Darwinian linguistics is a sociobiological
approach to the study of language.
Sociology
Sociobiology is a field of biology that aims to examine and explaine
social behavior interms of evolution.
Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology
that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary
perspective.
Biolinguistic
Biolinguistics can be defined as the study of biology and the
evolution of language.
Human languages evolve by a process of descent with modification in which
parent languages give rise to daughter languages over time and in a
manner that mimics the evolution of biological species. Descent with
modification is just one of many parallels between biological and linguistic
evolution that, taken together, offer up a Darwinian perspective on how
languages evolve