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演題：Comparative cognitive approach onto human language evolution -from a perspective of crossmodal correspondences

京都大学
ヒト行動進化研究センター
准教授
足立 幾磨

担当PI：羽倉 信宏

Abstract:

“High” vs “Low Status”, “Top of the Heap”, “Bottom of the Barrel”.  Similar expressions are widely observed across cultures and languages. The cross-modal correspondence between the visuospatial domain (e.g. high or low) and an abstract domain (e.g. rank) has been described as a conceptual metaphor, a linguistic construction, and therefore uniquely human. A conceptual metaphor takes one concept and connects that to another concept to better understand that concept. The way we think and act is largely influenced by such conceptual metaphors, even without being aware of them. The question remains if conceptual metaphorical mapping is indeed uniquely human or if it appears in other primates and thus predates language. To address this question, we examined if non-human primates have conceptual metaphors as we humans do. In this talk, I will present our findings and discuss primate origins of cross-modal correspondences.