1st Edition
Introducing Evolutionary Pragmatics How Language Emerges from Use
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: What is evolutionary pragmatics? (Ines Adornetti & Francesco Ferretti)
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)
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 Placiński, Renato Raia, Giulia Sanguedolce, Marta Sibierska)
Chapter 5: A Usage-Based Perspective on Evolutionary Pragmatics (Michael Pleyer & Stefan Hartmann)
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 Żywiczyński).
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 Benítez-Burraco & Ljiljana Progovac)
Index
Biography
Ines Adornetti is an associate professor of Philosophy of Language and Language Disorders at Roma Tre University, Italy.
Francesco Ferretti is a full professor of Philosophy of Language and Cognitive Sciences at Roma Tre University, Italy.
