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Pragmatics and the aims of language evolution
Pragmatics has historically played a relatively peripheral role in language evolution research. This is a profound mistake. Here I describe how a pragmatic perspective can inform language evolution in the most fundamental way: by making clear what the natural objects of study are, and hence what the...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer US
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5325858/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27368617 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1061-2 |
| Sumario: | Pragmatics has historically played a relatively peripheral role in language evolution research. This is a profound mistake. Here I describe how a pragmatic perspective can inform language evolution in the most fundamental way: by making clear what the natural objects of study are, and hence what the aims of the field should be. |
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