Many species of animals have rich repertoires of various kinds of signals: chemical (odor), sound, optical. The temptation to see in them the semblance of speech is inherent not only to ordinary consciousness, but also by representatives of some scientific schools. Meanwhile, the language of a person and the so -called “languages” of animals are similar in only one purpose – to play the role of a means of communication, communication. But our language is also (and, probably, first of all) the main tool for thinking and knowledge of the world.
In recent decades, due to the constantly growing interest in the problems of managing and transmitting information into living and inanimate systems, riddles of animal communications begin to worry not only zoologists, but also scientists, who seemed to be completely different surveys. It suddenly turned out to be: not possessing quite complete and detailed knowledge about how to communicate our neighbors on the planet, linguists are not able to clearly explain what the human language is.
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Author
Panov Evgeny Nikolaevich
Publisher
Languages of Slavic cultures, 2014
Series
Reasonable behavior and language
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