日本語用論学会20周年企画講演 Stephen C. Levinson先生講演会のお知らせ（最終リマインダー）

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田中廣明

京都工芸繊維大学

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日本語用論学会20周年企画講演　Stephen C. Levinson先生講演会のお知らせ


日時　：　2018年3月15日(木)　15:00～17:00

会場　：　キャンパスプラザ京都　5階　第1講義室

アクセス： http://www.consortium.or.jp/about-cp-kyoto/access

〒600-8216　京都市下京区西洞院通塩小路下る東塩小路町939
京都市営地下鉄烏丸線、近鉄京都線、JR各線「京都駅」下車。徒歩5分。

講演会の詳細

http://pragmatics.gr.jp/activity/1/1.html


ポスター

http://pragmatics.gr.jp/content/images/PSJ_Levinson_poster.jpg


司会：田中廣明（京都工芸繊維大学）

講師　：　Stephen C. Levinson, MPI for Psycholinguistics

　　http://www.mpi.nl/people/levinson-stephen


演題　：　Spatial cognition, empathy and language evolution.

講演要旨：

　　In this lecture I will argue that language evolution may have been
closely tied to spatial cognition. First, we are natively poor
navigators, compared to many animal species. This may have to do with
the recruitment of the human hippocampus for things other than spatial
navigation, namely memory and language. That cooption may have left its
mark deep on the conceptual structure of language, providing primitives
differently utilized differently in different languages. Reasons for
that recycling of neuronal circuitry may have to do with the natural
preoccupations in human communication with networks, both spatial and
social. Above all, gesture ? a spatial modality ideal for indicating
spatial concepts ? seems to have anteceded spoken language in human
communication.

A crucial additional ingredient, explaining why other animals haven't
gone the same route, is the development of an interactional
infrastructure for communication, which is exclusive to humans. The
generalization of empathetic communication out of the maternal-infant
niche may have played a crucial role here. Increasing evidence about the
deep history of language seems compatible with this story.