UID:
almahu_9949383720402882
Format:
1 online resource (xxv, 316 pages)
ISBN:
9780429853043
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0429853041
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9780429853036
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0429853033
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9780429853029
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0429853025
,
9780429456879
,
0429456875
Content:
"Evolutionary Communication presents the first comprehensive evolutionary approach to the study of human communication. Presuming no specialized knowledge of evolutionary theory, this reader-friendly textbook explains why and how communication became the determining factor in human development. Drawing from the latest scientific research, Evolutionary Communication represents a truly groundbreaking contribution to Communication Studies as a field of study. Opening up an inspiring new approach for teaching communication, the book can be used as a core volume or supplemental text for courses ranging from Introduction to Communication and Communication Theory to Special Topics and graduate seminars"--
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Chapter Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- PART ONE Introduction -- 1 Introducing Evolutionary Communication -- Purpose of the Book -- Theory and Fact -- Communication Traditions -- Rhetoric and Media -- Social Science -- Critical Theory/Cultural Studies -- An Evolutionary Approach -- Defining "Evolution" -- Keeping Perspective -- What Lies Ahead? -- Reading the Book -- Notes -- 2 The Basics -- Beginnings -- The First Communicators -- Cooperation and Community -- Organizing Life -- Community and Communication
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Human Development -- Deep Time -- Deoxyribonucleic Acid: DNA -- Primates and Apes -- Box: Nature's Continuum -- Hominids and Hominins -- Our Oldest Direct Ancestors -- The Genus Homo -- Homo habilis and Homo erectus -- Homo neanderthalensis and Homo denisova -- Homo sapiens -- Natural Selection -- Genetic Mutations -- Adaptive Mutations -- Cooperating Genes -- Group Selection -- Evolution by Natural Selection -- Speciation -- Artificial Selection -- Human Adaptation -- Evolutionary Planes -- Box: Adapt to Survive Until ... -- Not Just Natural Selection -- Approaching Sexual Selection
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Plants and Animals -- Plant Communication -- Wood Wide Web -- How Plants Communicate -- Animal Communication -- Chapter Summary -- Notes -- PART TWO Why We Communicate -- 3 Survive and Reproduce -- Survival -- Defensive Communication -- Box: Communicating to Defend -- From Hunted to Hunter -- Cooperative Communication -- Animal Cooperation -- Signaling Cooperation -- Human Cooperative Communication -- Cognition -- Transformative Communication -- Reflexivity -- Cultural Foundations -- Physical Adaptations -- Reproduction -- Sexual Communication -- To Call and Charm -- Cooperation Displays
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Dimorphism -- Mating Rituals -- Human Sexual Selection -- Sex and Gender -- Ovulation -- Roots of Gender Difference -- Cooperative Reproduction -- Sexual Desire -- Box: Is Evolutionary Theory Sexist? -- Chapter Summary -- Notes -- 4 Expression -- The Expression Instinct -- Expressive Needs -- Expressing Emotions -- Freedom of Expression -- An Individual Right -- Self-expression Values -- Understanding Expression -- Animal Expression and Beauty -- Box: Communication at the Zoo -- Encountering the New -- Pursuing Beauty -- Communicating Excess -- Communication Arts -- Early Symbolic Expression
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Representational Art -- Sexual Symbolism -- Commodifying Expression -- Emotion -- Technological Enhancement -- Symbolic Creativity -- Semiotics -- Sign -- Symbol -- Symbolic Form -- Signal -- Code -- Symbolic Power -- Appropriation -- Hybridization and Indigenization -- Box: Hybrid Hero -- Social Uses -- Stories -- Patterns -- Adaptable Stories -- Stories in Speech -- Storytellers -- Chapter Summary -- Notes -- PART THREE How We Communicate -- 5 Spoken Language -- Animal Communication -- Vocal Channels -- Apes -- Orangutans -- Gorillas -- Chimpanzees and Bonobos -- What Is Language?
Additional Edition:
Print version: Lull, James. Evolutionary communication New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. ISBN 9781138312241
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429456879
