The emergence of human consciousness in the context of the evolution of language
Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching September 18, 2025 Karolina Janczukowicz
The paper presents a proposal for perceiving the development of human consciousness as related to the evolution of human speech. It discusses the development of language in evolutionary terms, relying on the theory of mind (Premack and Woodruff 1978) – especially the phenomenon of shared attention (Tomasello 2019), the Recruitment Theory (Bickerton 2009) and the Mirror System Hypothesis (Arbib...