托马塞洛：语言产生之前的沟通 ｜Linguists Online系列讲座第7期

转自：认知语言学

2020年疫情带来的影响不言而喻，国内外众多语言学会议和讲座或无限期推迟，或转为线上进行。一时间，各类公众号和自媒体上的讲座直播通告令人应接不暇。巴西语言学会(Abralin, Associação Brasileira de Linguística)在疫情期间广泛联络世界各地知名语言学家，策划了Abralin Ao Vivo(即 Linguists Online)系列讲座，自5月起通过YouTube频道向全球直播。获邀参加的语言学家已超过百位，可谓大师云集，规模空前。陕西师大语言与认知研究所(CogLing.cn)与Abralin达成合作关系，获得Abralin独家内容授权，通过本微信公号向中国大陆学者同行独家转发该系列讲座的精选内容。

今日发布精选集第7期，主讲人为托马塞洛()，讲座题目“Communication before Language"，直播时间为2020年6月8日。视频英文字幕为本公号后期制作，限于精力，未经逐字校对，敬请谅解。

视频时长73分钟

English Introduction

For obvious and very good reasons the study of human communication is dominated by the study of language. But from a psychological point of view, the basic structure of human communication - how it works pragmatically in terms of the intentions and inferences involved - is totally independent of language. The most important data here are acts of human communication that do not employ conventions. In situations in which language is for some reason not an option, people often produce spontaneous, non-conventionalized gestures, including most prominently pointing (deictic gestures) and pantomiming (iconic gestures). These gestures are universal among humans and unique to the species, and in human evolution they almost certainly preceded conventional communication, either signed or vocal. For prelinguistic infants to communicate effectively via pointing and pantomiming, they must already possess species-unique and very powerful skills and motivations for shared intentionality as pragmatic infrastructure. Conventional communication is then built on top of this infrastructure - or so I will argue. ⠀

版权方：Abralin ao Vivo - Linguists Online is an initiative of Abralin - Associação Brasileira de Linguística in cooperation with several linguistics associations.

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