Roberta P Mocerino

Biographic Data

ID3452115
NAMERoberta P Mocerino
GIVEN NAMESRoberta P
FAMILY NAMEMocerino
SIGNATUREMOCERINO R P
AFFILIATIONSMinistry of Education, Universities and Research
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS1
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR1
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX1

  • Gesture, Interjection and Onomatopoeia in Edward Burnett Tylor's Theory of the Origin and Development of Language

    Open AccessRoberta P MocerinoARTICLETheoria et Historia Scientiarum2016Cited by: 1References: 5

    In this paper, I shall focus on E. B. Tylor's theory on the origin and development of language, as it is expounded in his Researches into the Early History of Mankind (1865), in Primitive Culture (1871) and in Anthropology (1881). In his first work, influenced by Charles Darwin and Max Müller, he tried to explain the emergence of human language from what he called "Gesture-Language". This line of inquiry prompted him to discuss the relation betwe…