There is a growing view that intelligence evolved as a product of social independence and that intelligence was linked to the use of spoken language. Taking as their starting-point the social production of intelligence and of language, scholars from a range of disciplines are beginning to rethink fundamental questions about human evolution, language and social institutions. In this volume, anthropologists, linguists, primatologists and pychologists come together to work on this new frontier of research.
Contents
Introduction Esther N. Goody; Part I. Primary Processes: l. The ape legacy Richard W. Byrne; 2. How to invent a shared lexicon Edwin Hutchins and Brian Hazlehurst; 3. Kinship organization Nurit Bird-David; Part II. The Interactive Negotiation of Meaning in Conversation: 4. On projection Jurgen Streeck; 5. Interaction sequences and anticipatory interactive planning Paul Drew; 6. Where does foresight end and hindsight begin? David Good; Part III. Genres as Tools that Shape Interaction: 7. Politeness strategies and the attribution of intentions Penelope Brown; 8. Interaction planning and intersubjective adjustment of perspectives by communicative genres Thomas Luckmann; Part IV. Expressions of a Social Bias in Intelligence: 9. Divination as dialogue David Zeitlyn; l0. Social intelligence and prayer as dialogue Esther N. Goody; 11. Interactional biases in human thinking Stephen C. Levinson; 12. Stories in the social and mental life of people Michael Carrithers.
Review
"The chapters cover contributions from a variety of disciplines and include much anthropological detail... a fascinating collection to dip into..." Peter K. Smith, Human Ethology Bulletin
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