The Meaning of Primate Signals

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ID11111967
AuthorsPeter H Salus (corresponding author), Rom Harré (0000-0002-2596-3140), Vernon Reynolds (0000-0001-7412-5445)
Year1987
Volume63
Issue2
Pages457
Publication date1987-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/415713
OpenAlexW2318239875
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Language is just one particularly highly developed form of primate communication. Recent years have seen increased attention to other forms: studies of animals in the wild, efforts to teach sign language to apes. This volume reflects perspectives from a variety of disciplines on the nature and function of primate signalling systems. Monkeys and apes, like people, live in a world in which they are constantly receiving and transmitting information. How can we interpret the ways in which they process it without imposing our own language-based categorizations? The problem is partly scientific, partly conceptual: that is, partly concerned with what language is. The authors' findings and insights will be of interest to a broad group of primatologists, linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers

Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Primate · Categorization, perception, and language · Communication · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology

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