Evolutionary Pragmatics
Communicative Interaction and the Origins of Language
Series: Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language; 21;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 July 2025
- ISBN 9780192871206
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 240x160x25 mm
- Weight 643 g
- Language English 749
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Short description:
This volume explores the new interdisciplinary field of evolutionary pragmatics, encompassing both the evolution of abilities needed for pragmatics and the role of pragmatics in the evolution of language. The chapters adopt a range of approaches, with insights from linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and primatology.
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This volume explores the new interdisciplinary field of evolutionary pragmatics, which encompasses research on both the evolution of abilities needed for pragmatics and the role of pragmatics in the evolution of language. The biological evolution of linguistic capacities and the cultural evolution of natural languages were both driven by the communicative interactions of our ancestors; since these communicative interactions are the province of pragmatics, evolutionary pragmatics is the cornerstone of the study of the evolution of language.
The chapters in this volume investigate a wide range of pragmatic topics from an evolutionary perspective, including reference, ambiguity, common ground, communicative intentions, and language conventions. The authors also examine a number of topics relating specifically to evolutionary pragmatics, ranging from baboon vocalizations and gestural communication in chimpanzees to formal models of the evolution of signalling systems and the co-evolution of pragmatics and grammar. The range of approaches adopted reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the field, with insights from linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and primatology.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
Intentions in human and non-human great ape communication
Signal use and pragmatics in the first natural language users: Kinds of signs
Pragmatically intermediate protolanguage
Gricean communication, natural language, and human evolution
The evolutionary foundations of common ground
Pragmatics in ape gesture
Cultural evolutionary pragmatics: An empirical approach to the relation between language and social cognition
Conventions, coordination, and arbitrariness
Population-level models of evolutionary pragmatics
Normative pragmatics and social structures: an evolutionary perspective
The co-evolution of pragmatics and grammatical complexity
References
Index
