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Peer reviewedKing, Barbara J. – Language & Communication, 1996
Maintains that language as humans now produce and comprehend evolved from languagelike precursors in the communication systems of nonhuman primates. The article reviews "Gesture and the Nature of Language" (GNL) (1995) and notes that GNL derives syntax incrementally without diluting it to an element not recognizable as a property of language. (37…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Peer reviewedDavis, Hayley; Love, Nigel – Language & Communication, 1996
Reviews three books with the common theme that the way language operates in connection with juridical processes of various kinds gives ground for complaint. A subsidiary theme is that academic language studies might, in some cases, provide the appropriate theoretical underpinnings for the examination of the problems in question, and perhaps lead…
Descriptors: Body Language, Book Reviews, Communicative Competence (Languages), Context Effect
