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Hashimoto, T. (2002) The constructive approach to the dynamical view of language. In Angelo Cangelosi and Domenico Parisi, editors, Simulating the Evolution of Language, pages 307--324. London: Springer Verlag.
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Chapter 11
The Constructive Approach to the Dynamic
View of Language
Takashi Hashimoto

Introduction Human languages have a variety of characteristics. To study the evolution and dynamics of language using simulation models, it is important to consider which characteristics should be adopted and abstracted when constructing the model. The features that are adopted and the way in which they are modelled represent what researchers of language evolution recognize as the essence of language 1 . In many cases, the role of language as a tool for communication is abstracted as its essence. That is, the evolution and dynamics of language are formalized in terms of how people come to use the same lexicon and grammar for communication. Although communication is one of the most important aspects of the evolution of proto­language from animal communication systems, human language is not only a tool for conveying one's mind to others. The activities of communication induce various effects on the speakers and listeners in addition to the exact ``transmission of messages''. For example, the act of communicating extends and reshapes the cognitive structures of language users. This function may separate human language from animal communication systems. 1 This refers not only to the study of the evolution and dynamics of language but to the whole of linguistic studies. Tokieda (1941) has insisted upon the relationship between the essence of language and the study of language as follows, ``The mission of the study of language should be not to arrange particular linguistic data and organize them into linguistic laws but to clarify the profile of language as the subject of study of language (p.iv).'' 2 Let us consider the system of symbols in the light of this point. The establishment of shared connections between symbols and their referents in human language does not in itself demonstrate a qualitative difference between human language and animal communication systems, but it does ...
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@incollection{hashimoto01theConstructive,
  author={Takashi Hashimoto},
  title={The constructive approach to the dynamical view of language},
  year={2002},
  pages={307-324},
  address={London},
  chapter={14},
  editor={Angelo Cangelosi and Domenico Parisi},
  publisher={Springer Verlag},
  booktitle={Simulating the Evolution of Language},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/hashimoto01theConstructive.html}
}

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