The Grammar of Genes : How the Genetic Code Resembles the Linguistic Code
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
European Semiotics/Semiotiques Europeennes
ISBN-10
3039106546
ISBN-13
9783039106547
Publisher
Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint
Verlag Peter Lang
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 24th, 2005
Print length
182 Pages
Weight
306 grams
Dimensions
16.30 x 23.40 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
linguisticsPhilosophy of languageGrammar, syntax & morphologySemiotics / semiologyPhilosophy
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Mankind is the only speaking species on earth. Hence language is supposed to have a genetic basis, no matter whether it relies on general intelligence, or on a linguistic module. This study proposes that universal formal properties of the linguistic code emerged from the genetic code through duplication. The proportion of segmental duplication is clearly higher in the human genome than in any other species, and duplication took place 6 million years ago when humans separated from the other hominid branches. The evolution of language is therefore supposed to be a gradual process with a break. This book describes a lot of striking formal resemblances the genetic code and the linguistic code hold in common. The book aims to reconcile generative grammar with cognitive semiotics showing that both of them constitute instances of embodiment.
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