| Titre | La fonction shannonienne du langage : un indice de son évolution. | |
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| Auteur | Jean-Louis Dessalles | |
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Revue | Langages |
| Numéro | no 146, juin 2002 L'origine du langage, sous la direction de Bernard Laks et Bernard Victorri | |
| Page | 101-111 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The observation of our spontaneous communicative behaviour should offer some clues about the reason why the ability to communicate through language emerged in our species. This observation reveals that human beings universally communicate about salient events, what we call the shannonian function of language. Shannonian communication seems specific to homo sapiens and can be modelled in the frame of probability theory. We hypothesize that (proto)language, in a previous stage of our evolution to language, may have been used for the only purpose of signalling salient events. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/doc/lgge_0458-726x_2002_num_36_146_2405 |
