政大語言學/英語教學學術工作坊
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講者：George van Driem/Professor Emeritus at the University of Bern and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Centre for Linguistic Science and Technology Indian Institute of Technology
題目：Language evolution and the symbiotic theory of language: A brief introduction to Symbiosism and Symbiomism
摘要：Symbiosis has been understood to be a widespread phenomenon in the living world for almost as long as natural selection has been recognised. Most multicellular life forms arose ontogenetically as symbiomes. Language too is life form, yet language differs from other known organisms. This talk will provide a concise introduction to Symbiosism and Symbiomism. Symbiosism is the theory of language as a semiotic organism that inhabits the human brain and shapes human cognition. As distinct from other life forms, language is a semiotic organism. Unlike other symbionts, language first arose and then evolved within its host rather than invading the host’s brain and colonising the host organism from outside. The etymology of the term meme and a number of competing definitions thereof as the unit of selection in cultural evolution are explained. In contrast to the Oxonian definition of a meme, and more in consonance with anterior conceptions of the unit of cultural selection, the semiotically informed Leiden definition of a meme is a linguistic sign in the Saussurean sense, the meaning of which is characterised by having the mathematical properties of a non-constructible set. Out of the linguistic theory of Symbiosism comes Symbiomism, the philosophy of human nature as a symbiome consisting of a semiotic symbiont inhabiting a hominin host. Symbiomism instructs us that the key to contentment and good health requires keeping both components of the symbiome happy, healthy and in harmonious equilibrium.
時間：112年10月18日星期三中午12點30分至下午2點
地點：國立政治大學季陶樓340313語言學研究所視聽會議室
主辦：國立政治大學語言學研究所／國立政治大學英國語文學系
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