Darwinian Biolinguistics (eBook)

Acknowledgements.- 1. Introduction.- Part one – History and state of the art.- 2. Chomsky and Biolinguistics.- 3. The last Chomsky and the Evolutionary Perspective.- 3.1. The Externalization Devices.- 3.2. Computational Processes of the Linguistic mind.- 3.3. A Micromutation and in an instant is the God-Language.- 4. The Update of the Biolinguistics Agenda.- 4.1. A kind of Evo-Devo Account.- 4.2. Contemporary Revisionism.- 5. Another Biolinguistics History: from Aristotle to Darwin and Broca.- 5.1. A Mindless Biolinguistics: Aristotle.- 5.2. Vico and the Origins of the "lingue mutole".- 5.3. From Darwin to Darwin.- 5.4. Resistances and Resilience: the Watershed of Neuroscience.- Part two – Towards a Darwinian Biolinguistics.- 6. Comparing two models: CBM vs DBM.- 7. The Nature of the Species-specificity of Human Language.- 7.1. The Cognitive Constraints of Language.- 7.2. The Technomorphic thought.- 7.3. The Bodily Technology of Language.- 8. Genetic Fundamentals.- 8.1. The Genetics of a Sapiens.- 8.1.1. The FOXP2.- 8.1.1.1. The FOXP2 in Evolution.- 8.1.2. Genes Selected to become Humans.- 8.1.3. Genes lost to become Humans.- 8.1.4. From Individuals to Population.- 9. Morphological Fundamentals.- 9.1. The Vocal Tact and Productive Specificity.- 9.2. The Specificity of Auditory Perception.- 9.3. The Biological Feedback Hearing-voice.- 9.4. Interpretation of the data.- 9.4.1. Ethological Specialization of Sensory Cortices.- 9.4.2. Neuroscientific Evidence in Bilateral Ablations of Auditory Cortex.- 10. Neurocerebral Fundamentals.- 10.1. Methodological issues.- 10.2. Modularisms.- 10.3. Networks for Language.- 10.4. Broca’s area: A new Processor for Neural Binding.- 10.5. Evolving Broca’s Functions.- Part three – Extended Performativity: From Brain Plasticity to Linguistic Pragmatics.- 11. Performance.- 11.1. Definition, Development and Application of the term.- 11.2. Performativity and Brain Plasticity.- 12. Functional Plasticity.- 12.1. Ontogeny and Structures of Plasticity.- 12.2. Physiology and Pathology of Plasticity.- 13. Evolutionary Plasticity.- 13.1. The Chrono-logical Causalism.- 13.2. The brain tenant of the body.- 13.3. Plasticity, Innovation and re-use in Evo-Devo.- 14. Bio-linguistic Plasticity and Origin of Language.- 14.1. The Mechanical Trigger: when possible Speakers are Selected?.- 14.2. A wild ride 14.3. Natural selection, Cultural Evolution and The Price of Language.- 15. The Boundaries of Biolinguistics.- 15.1. Biolinguistics of Performance.- 15.2. Performative Bootstrapping in Ontogenetic Development.- 16. Pragmatics and Biolinguistics.- 16.1. From Pragmatics to Cognitive Performativity 16.1.1. The Dichotomies of Contemporary Pragmatics.- 16.1.2. Explicit and Implicit Culturalist Approaches.- 16.1.3. Examples of Evolutionary Pragmatics.- 16.2. Pragmatics as a Stabilization of Performative Process.- Bibliography