In honor of a new book entitled “How Language Began” by David McNeil, the author has been blogging about the origin of language in gesture–speech unity over at the Cambridge Extra/Linguist List part of the CUP site. These blog posts are lengthy, thought provoking and include very thorough reading lists for the interested.
Part 4: Mead’s Loop (2). Wider consequences.
I’m not sure if there’s any more coming, but I wish more authors and professors would take the time to have a good old blog on open access platforms about their work.
Part 5: The dynamic dimension, modes of consciousness:
http://cup.linguistlist.org/2012/12/the-origin-of-language-in-gesture-speech-unity-5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-origin-of-language-in-gesture-speech-unity-5
Part 6. Gumbo
http://cup.linguistlist.org/2012/12/the-origin-of-language-in-gesture-speech-unity-6/