Introducing a special issue

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Arbib
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Interaction Studies ◽  
Final Article ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Brain Behavior ◽  
The Brain

Abstract The paper introduces a Special Issue of Interaction Studies which includes 21 papers based on presentations and discussion at a workshop entitled “How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map.” Unifying themes include the comparative study of brain, behavior and communication in monkeys, apes and humans, and an EvoDevoSocio framework for approaching biological and cultural evolution within a shared perspective. The final article of the special issue builds on the previous papers to present “The Comparative Neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) Road Map for Research on How the Brain Got Language.”

scholarly journals The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 370-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Arbib ◽  
Francisco Aboitiz ◽  
Judith M. Burkart ◽  
Michael Corballis ◽  
Gino Coudé ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Great Apes ◽  
Last Common Ancestor ◽  
Road Map ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Brain Behavior ◽  
The Brain

Abstract We present a new road map for research on “How the Brain Got Language” that adopts an EvoDevoSocio perspective and highlights comparative neuroprimatology – the comparative study of brain, behavior and communication in extant monkeys and great apes – as providing a key grounding for hypotheses on the last common ancestor of humans and monkeys (LCA-m) and chimpanzees (LCA-c) and the processes which guided the evolution LCA-m → LCA-c → protohumans → H. sapiens. Such research constrains and is constrained by analysis of the subsequent, primarily cultural, evolution of H. sapiens which yielded cultures involving the rich use of language.

Setting an Agenda for the Socio-Legal Study of Contemporary Buddhism

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin SCHONTHAL ◽  
Tom GINSBURG
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
State Law ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Legal Study ◽  
Buddhist Studies ◽  
Legal Activism ◽  
The Comparative Study

AbstractThis introduction to the special issue on Buddhism and law lays out an agenda for the socio-legal study of contemporary Buddhism. We identify lacunae in the current literature and call for further work on four themes: the relations between monastic legal practice and state law; the formations of Buddhist constitutionalism; Buddhist legal activism and Buddhist-interest litigation; and Buddhist moral critiques of law. We argue that this agenda is important for advancing Buddhist studies and for the comparative study of law and legal institutions.

G. I. Gurdjieff and the Study of Religion/s

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Sutcliffe ◽  
Carole M. Cusack
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
General Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
New Religion

This is an introduction by the guest editors to a special issue on the study of Gurdjieff approached within the comparative study of religion/s. We position this special issue within a new wave in the study of Gurdjieff that aims to eschew emic biases as well as a narrow ‘new religion’ typology in order better to engage the social, cultural and textual histories common to the general study of religion/s. We briefly indicate the existing scholarship on Gurdjieff in this light before introducing the contents of the five original articles in this special issue, with particular reference to the pioneering work of Andrew Rawlinson on Gurdjieff as a ‘western guru’.

scholarly journals Patterns of Cranial Venous System from the Comparative Anatomy in Vertebrates: Part I, Introduction and the Dorsal Venous System

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Aurboonyawat ◽  
S. Suthipongchai ◽  
V. Pereira ◽  
A. Ozanne ◽  
P. Lasjaunias
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Comparative Anatomy ◽  
Venous Drainage ◽  
Venous System ◽  
New Classification ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
The Brain

Many classifications of the cerebral venous system are found in the literature but they are seldom based on phylogenic study. Among vertebrates, venous drainage of the brain vesicles differs depending on the species. Due to the variability, poorly descriptive articles, and many different names used for the veins, the comparative study of the cranial venous system can hardly be performed in detail. The cranial venous system in vertebrates can be divided into three systems based on the evolution of the meninges and structures of the brain vesicles: the dorsal, lateral-ventral and ventricular systems. This study proposes a new classification of the venous drainage of brain vesicles using knowledge from a comparative study of vertebrates and focusing on the dorsal venous system. We found that the venous drainage of the neopallium and neocerebellum is involved with this system which may be a recent acquisition of cranial venous evolution.

scholarly journals Other-repetition in conversation across languages: Bringing prosody into pragmatic typology

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-520
Author(s):  
Giovanni Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Natural Conversation ◽  
Aims And Scope ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Conversational Structure ◽  
Auditory Features

AbstractIn this article, I introduce the aims and scope of a project examining other-repetition in natural conversation. This introduction provides the conceptual and methodological background for the five language-specific studies contained in this special issue, focussing on other-repetition in English, Finnish, French, Italian, and Swedish. Other-repetition is a recurrent conversational phenomenon in which a speaker repeats all or part of what another speaker has just said, typically in the next turn. Our project focusses particularly on other-repetitions that problematise what is being repeated and typically solicit a response. Previous research has shown that such repetitions can accomplish a range of conversational actions. But how do speakers of different languages distinguish these actions? In addressing this question, we put at centre stage the resources of prosody—the nonlexical acoustic-auditory features of speech—and bring its systematic analysis into the growing field of pragmatic typology—the comparative study of language use and conversational structure. (Repetition, conversation, prosody, pragmatics, typology)*

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