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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Diversity of Expression in Utterance and the Idea of L
 anguage - Prof Adam Kendon (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Giulia Bovolenta
DESCRIPTION:Edward Tylor’s (1865\, 1871) view of utterance in which dive
 rse modes of expression are conjointly mobilized for the expression of “
 thoughts” implied a view of language that was in marked contrast to that
  which eventually came to prevail\, as linguistics emerged as an autonomou
 s field of inquiry at the end of the nineteenth century. Studies of how sp
 eakers use gesture and of sign languages\, however\, are leading to the re
 cognition that the concept of language must incorporate a diversity of mod
 alities and semiotic processes\, suggesting an idea of language that is mu
 ch more compatible with the way Tylor conceived of it. Implications for la
 nguage origins theories may be discussed.
LOCATION:GR-06/7\, Faculty of English\, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site)
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