Darwinian Biolinguistics. Theory and history of a naturalistic philosophy of language and pragmatics

This book offers a radically evolutionary approach to biolinguistics that consists in considering human language as a form of species-specific intelligence entirely embodied in the corporeal structures of sapiens. Of this specific bodily language technology will highlight the biological constraints, which affect differently not only the role of the brain and that of the peripheral organs but also the cognitive aspects of language use. In the proposed model the continuity between human and non-human primates is linked to the development and articulation of the gradualist neurocerebral structures and pragmatic prelinguistic featuring a common nature of social learning. On the contrary grammatical and semantic skills that characterize the learning of historical-natural languages are configured as rapid acceleration of cultural evolution is not said sapiens favor in the long-term adaptations. The book begins with a historical reconstruction of two opposing biolinguistici models: CBM (Chomskian Biolinguistic Model) and DBM (Darwinian Biolinguistic Model) which is dedicated to all the first part. In the second part of model comparisons extends to a complete overhaul of the traditional biolinguistici key issues in evolutionary and their potential influence on the global paradigm of biologically oriented cognitive science. The third part, finally, formulates the philosophical basis, evolutionary and experimental principles of an extended theory of linguistic performativity within a naturalistic perspective of pragmatics of verbal language.