Abstract
The aim of the paper is to discuss two important approaches that can be considered complementary to Deely's historiographic, evolutionist perspective regarding the development of semiotic consciousness, especially in the human language. These two perspectives accentuate (the first explicitly and the second implicitly) the semiotic conception of understanding compared to Deely in different aspects.
On the one hand, it is an attempt to explain the absence of language in non-human animal species in the work of neuroanthropologist T. W.
Deacon, and on the other hand it is an attempt to explain how anything like language we acquire in the early development of our cognitive apparatus