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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Autor principal: Scott-Phillips, Thomas C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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
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spelling pubmed-53258582017-03-09 Pragmatics and the aims of language evolution Scott-Phillips, Thomas C. Psychon Bull Rev Article 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. Springer US 2016-07-01 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5325858/ /pubmed/27368617 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1061-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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