Introducing Evolutionary Pragmatics : How Language Emerges from Use (Hardcover)

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction:?What is evolutionary pragmatics? (Ines Adornetti & Francesco Ferretti)

Part I: Animal communication

Chapter 2: Animal signalling between informing and influencing: setting the stage for a pragmatic-rhetorical model of communication (Ines Adornetti)

Chapter 3:?The cognitive foundations of ostensive-inferential communication: Insight from the study of non-human primates’ communication (Alessandra Chiera)

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Part II: Communication channel and meaning construction

Chapter 4:?The Role of Communication Channel in the Emergence of Novel Communication Systems in Experimental Semiotics (Michael Pleyer, Angelo D. Delliponti, Svetlana Kuleshova, Marek Placi?ski, Renato Raia, Giulia Sanguedolce, Marta Sibierska)

Chapter 5:?A Usage-Based Perspective on Evolutionary Pragmatics (Michael Pleyer & Stefan Hartmann)

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Part III: Cooperation and competition in the emergence of language structure?

Chapter 6: A four-stage model of the co-evolution of hominin cooperation and communication (Jordan Zlatev, Aaron Stutz & Przemyslaw ?ywiczy?ski).

Chapter 7: Agonistic Conversation. A cognitive-interactive perspective on the origin of grammar. (Francesco Ferretti)

Chapter 8: The role of early expressive uses of language in brain and language evolution (Antonio Benitez-Burraco & Ljiljana Progovac)

Index

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