Origins of Human Communication
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Origins of Human Communication is a scholarly book by Michael Tomasello that explores how human language and communicative abilities evolved from primate social cognition and cooperative behaviors.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17040982 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Origins of Human Communication Context triple: [Michael Tomasello, notableWork, Origins of Human Communication]
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On the Origin of Language
On the Origin of Language is a 19th-century work by philologist Hensleigh Wedgwood that explores the origins and development of human speech and linguistic forms.
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Communication and the Evolution of Society
Communication and the Evolution of Society is a seminal work by Jürgen Habermas that develops his theory of communicative action and explores how language and communication shape social evolution and modern society.
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Language as a Window into Human Nature
"Language as a Window into Human Nature" is the subtitle of Steven Pinker's book *The Stuff of Thought*, which explores how language reveals the structure of human thought, emotion, and social relationships.
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Toward Ethnographies of Communication
Toward Ethnographies of Communication is a foundational scholarly work in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics that helped establish the ethnography of communication as a key approach to studying language use in social context.
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E.
Foundations of Language
Foundations of Language is a major theoretical work by linguist Ray Jackendoff that proposes an integrated, cognitive-science-based account of how linguistic structure relates to meaning, perception, and the mind.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Origins of Human Communication Target entity description: Origins of Human Communication is a scholarly book by Michael Tomasello that explores how human language and communicative abilities evolved from primate social cognition and cooperative behaviors.
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A.
On the Origin of Language
On the Origin of Language is a 19th-century work by philologist Hensleigh Wedgwood that explores the origins and development of human speech and linguistic forms.
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B.
Communication and the Evolution of Society
Communication and the Evolution of Society is a seminal work by Jürgen Habermas that develops his theory of communicative action and explores how language and communication shape social evolution and modern society.
-
C.
Language as a Window into Human Nature
"Language as a Window into Human Nature" is the subtitle of Steven Pinker's book *The Stuff of Thought*, which explores how language reveals the structure of human thought, emotion, and social relationships.
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D.
Toward Ethnographies of Communication
Toward Ethnographies of Communication is a foundational scholarly work in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics that helped establish the ethnography of communication as a key approach to studying language use in social context.
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E.
Foundations of Language
Foundations of Language is a major theoretical work by linguist Ray Jackendoff that proposes an integrated, cognitive-science-based account of how linguistic structure relates to meaning, perception, and the mind.
- F. None of above. chosen
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