语言学入门教材中动物交流与语言进化的表现

IF 2.1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Sławomir Wacewicz, M. Pleyer, A. Szczepańska, Aleksandra Ewa Poniewierska, Przemysław Żywiczyński
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摘要

在过去的三十年里,大量新的实证数据和方法的出现,使语言进化的研究成为一个快速发展的科学研究领域。在本文中,我们调查了这项研究的结果如何在最流行的入门语言学教科书的内容中表现出来。我们进行了一项全面的计算机辅助定性研究,其中我们检查了18本英语教科书中与语言的进化出现及其本质独特性有关的所有内容,以评估其主题范围、主题选择、涵盖的理论、引用的研究人员、结构的健全性、时代性和事实准确性。总体而言,我们发现感兴趣的内容在整个教科书中缺乏定义的规范表示。动物交流的覆盖范围相对较广,有一些反复出现的经典例子,如长尾猴或蜜蜂;这些内容主要是围绕“设计功能”方法构建的。相比之下,与语言起源和进化相关的主题的覆盖范围要小得多,而且往往包括相对较大比例的具有历史价值的内容(即创造神话,“汪汪”理论)。最后,我们为教科书的未来版本提出建议,特别是更好地代表重要框架,如信号理论,以及这个快节奏领域的当前研究成果。
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The representation of animal communication and language evolution in introductory linguistics textbooks
The last three decades have brought a wealth of new empirical data and methods that have transformed investigations of language evolution into a fast-growing field of scientific research. In this paper, we investigate how the results of this research are represented in the content of the most popular introductory linguistic textbooks. We carried out a comprehensive computer-assisted qualitative study, in which we inspected eighteen English-language textbooks for all content related to the evolutionary emergence of language and its uniqueness in nature, in order to evaluate its thematic scope, selection of topics, theories covered, researchers cited, structural soundness, currency, and factual accuracy. Overall, we found that the content of interest lacks a defined canonical representation across the textbooks. The coverage of animal communication was relatively broad, with some recurring classic examples, such as vervet monkeys or honeybees; this content was mostly structured around the ‘design features’ approach. In contrast, the coverage of topics related to language origins and evolution was much less extensive and systematic, and tended to include a relatively large the proportion of content of historical value (i.e. creation myths, ‘bow-wow’ theories). We conclude by making recommendations for future editions of textbooks, in particular, a better representation of important frameworks such as signalling theory, and of current research results in this fast-paced field.
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Journal of Language Evolution
Journal of Language Evolution Social Sciences-Linguistics and Language
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