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(2015) Biosemiotic perspectives on language and linguistics, Dordrecht, Springer.
In this essay I shall attempt to show how Darwin's work on, and contribution to, linguistics has often charted a proto-biosemiotic trajectory of thought. While modern linguistic studies have tended to explore Darwin's contribution to linguistics adopting a Saussurean view I argue that such views undermine Darwin's notion of continuity between animals and humans and I propose to look at Darwin's theory of language, which stems from the Romantic thought, by adopting a biosemiotic perspective which clarifies Darwin's own ideas on the origin of language and animal evolution as well as their inter-relations.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20663-9_14
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Neubauer, D. (2015)., Darwin's biosemiotics: the linguistic rubicon in the descent of man, in E. Velmezova, K. Kull & S. J. Cowley (eds.), Biosemiotic perspectives on language and linguistics, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 257-273.
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