{"product_id":"the-meaning-of-primate-signals-paperback-9780521087735","title":"The Meaning of Primate Signals (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521087735","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Meaning of Primate Signals\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLanguage is just one particularly highly developed form of primate communication.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRom Harré (Edited by), Vernon Reynolds (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521087735, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 December 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.3 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.4 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eLanguage is just one particularly highly developed form of primate communication. Recent years have seen increased attention to other forms: studies of animals in the wild, efforts to teach sign language to apes. This volume reflects perspectives from a variety of disciplines on the nature and function of primate signalling systems. Monkeys and apes, like people, live in a world in which they are constantly receiving and transmitting information. How can we interpret the ways in which they process it without imposing our own language-based categorizations? The problem is partly scientific, partly conceptual: that is, partly concerned with what language is. The authors' findings and insights will be of interest to a broad group of primatologists, linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. The Setting of the Problem: 1 Devious intentions of monkeys and apes? Duane Quiatt\u003cbr\u003e 2. What the vocalizations of monkeys mean to humans and what they mean to monkeys themselves Robert M. Seyfarth\u003cbr\u003e 3. Category formation in vervet monkeys Dorothy L. Cheney\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Theoretical Preliminaries: 4. The strange creature Justin Leiber\u003cbr\u003e 5. Vocabularies and theories Rom Harre\u003cbr\u003e 6. Ethology and language Edwin Ardener\u003cbr\u003e 7. Must monkeys mean? Roy Harris\u003cbr\u003e 8. The inevitability and utility of anthopomorphism in description of primate behaviour Pamela J. Asquith\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Steps towards a solution: 9. 'Language' in apes H. S. Terrace\u003cbr\u003e 10. Social changes in a group of rhesus monkeys Vernon Reynolds\u003cbr\u003e 11. Categorization of social signals as derived from quantitative analyses of communication processes M. Maurus and D. Ploog\u003cbr\u003e 12.  Experience tells Eric Jones and Michael Chance.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social, group or collective psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social,%20group%20or%20collective%20psychology%20%5BJMH%5D%22\"\u003eJMH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46297208422680,"sku":"9780521087735","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-meaning-of-primate-signals-paperback-9780521087735","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}