Introducing Evolutionary Pragmatics

This collection highlights a range of perspectives on the emerging body of research on evolutionary pragmatics, expanding the borders of language evolution research and indicating exciting new directions for the future of the field.

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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.

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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 Placi ski, 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 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 Benítez-Burraco & Ljiljana Progovac)

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