This paper relies on the idea that human language evolved to modify/change the beliefs and
attitudes of other people, in order to make them act in a certain way. Such an idea is in line …

To summarize in a few words, the content of this book is easy to illustrate. Its arguments
revolve around two fundamental theses: first, the idea that communication at any level (both …

The topic of this chapter concerns the selective pressures towards persuasive
communication, focusing on two different persuasive strategies: argumentation and …

We propose reframing one of the key questions in the field of language evolution as what
was the original human-specific communicative system? With the help of cognitive …

The article begins with a presentation of the role of demonstration and pantomime in the
evolution of teaching building on Gärdenfors and Högberg (2017). In comparison to different …

Although pantomimic scenarios recur in the most important historical as well as current
accounts of language origins, a serious problem is the lack of a commonly accepted …

Could pantomime have been the key step in the evolutionary emergence of symbolic
communication? Such a possibility has been consistently present in the intellectual …

Pantomime is a means of bodily visual communication that is based on iconic gestures that
are not fully conventional. It has become a key element in many models of language …

This article examines a popular trend of postulating that gestures have played a crucial role
in the emergence of human language. Language evolution is frequently understood as a …

In the last two decades,'storytelling'has become a popular term in the evolutionary sciences.
However, this notion lacks a systematic and nuanced definition. Treated intuitively, it has …