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SUMMARY:[Online talk] - Peircean Semiotics\, Archaeology\, and the Origin 
 of Human Language: Was Homo erectus the first talking human? - Prof Daniel
  Everett (Bentley University)
DTSTART:20200611T140000Z
DTEND:20200611T153000Z
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CONTACT:Julia Heine
DESCRIPTION:Charles Sanders Peirce was the founder of American Pragmatism\
 , the inventor of first and second order logic with universal and existent
 ial quantification\, the founder of Semiotics\, and much more. This talk e
 xplores the implications of his concept of semiosis (interpreting one sign
  via another) and one component of his semiotic typology\, icons vs. index
 es vs. symbols\, for the evolution of human language. I argue that languag
 e is more than 1 million years old\; that grammar is not central to human 
 language but merely a computational aid to semiosis\; that Homo neandertha
 lensis and Homo sapiens were likely born into a linguistic world in which 
 language preceded their emergence by more than 800\,000 years.
LOCATION:Online
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