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Title: Displacement in communication
Authors: Tamura, Kaori
Hashimoto, Takashi
Keywords: Displacement
Communication
Evolution of language
Issue Date: 2012
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
Magazine name: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference (EVOLANG9)
Start page: 352
End page: 359
DOI: 10.1142/9789814401500_0046
Abstract: Displacement, the ability to refer to things that are spatially and temporally remote, is one of the important features of human language. In order to clarify what is truly unique to human language, we consider displacement in the context of communication. Various situations involving displacement are classified and examined. It is suggested that displaced understanding, which is not based on direct experience is unique to human beings. An experimental framework to investigate the cognitive mechanism of displacement in communication is introduced. The result of a preliminary experiment leads to a hypothesis that feature extraction is one of the mechanisms that enables displacement in communication.
Rights: Electronic version of an article published as Proceedings of the 9th International Conference (EVOLANG9), 2012, 352-359. DOI:10.1142/9789814401500_0046. Copyright World Scientific Publishing Company, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789814401500_0046
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10119/10937
Material Type: author
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