Current Progress in Arts and Social Studies Research

To publish is getting both easier and more difficult in scientific research, especially if you work in what used to be called Humanities, and has today taken names like Social Sciences, anthropology, linguistics, and education. All these subjects are heavily loaded with political stakes or are read by all sorts of readers who only want to see political stakes in what has nothing to do with anything but survival, the survival of the species (not endangered yet), the planet (more than slightly endangered), the cosmos (definitely changing at very high speed, even if time units for black holes and millions of years. The universe is expanding, though we do not know where it came from (the Big Bang was and is a blind alley), and certainly not where it is going (another big bang, I guess).

In all that I concentrate, in my chapter, on the phylogeny, the sustainable — by definition — emergence and development of the practical tool the human species has at their disposal, language and communication, language and conceptualization, language and imagination, even religions, even though people on such side-fields will speak of truthful knowledge. This language does not have any point of origin in Homo Sapiens. Vocal communication existed in previous Hominin species, even in many, if not all, animal species. Even if with insects it is not vocal but it is produced by some other parts of their bodies. Who doesn’t know about the song of cicadas in the Summer?

I have constructed this sustainable emergence on the image, the metaphor of the Trikirion of Symboleracy, the symbolic power of Hominin minds founded on the discriminating and retaining ability of the brain for patterns in all the sensations that reach it.

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

Brain & Mind + Language, the Three Phylogenetic Roots of Cognition

Dr. Jacques Coulardeau

Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Département des Langues Étrangères, 90 Rue de Tolbiac, 75013, Paris.

AIPL, Association Internationale de Psychomécanique du Langage, France.

ISAPL, International Society for Applied Psycholinguistics, Brazil.