Gricean communication, language development, and animal minds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4079772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Moore (0000-0003-4649-7676, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12550 |
| OpenAlex | W2890876374 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 58 |
Humans alone acquire language. According to one influential school of thought, we do this because we possess a uniquely human ability to act with and attribute "Gricean" communicative intentions. A challenge for this view is that attributing communicative intent seems to require cognitive abilities that infant language learners lack. After considering a range of responses to this challenge, I argue that infant language development can be explained, because Gricean communication is cognitively less demanding than many suppose. However, a consequence of this is that abilities for Gricean communication are unlikely to be uniquely human
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Developmental psychology · Grice · Human communication · Human language · Language development · Linguistics · Pragmatics · Child and Animal Learning Development · Communication · Infant Health and Development · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology
Teaching as evolutionary precursor to language
‘Pragmatics First’
Deference to First-Person Authority and Early Communicative Interactions
Mindshaping and Non-Gricean Approaches to Language Evolution
Prehistory, anti-Cartesianism, and the first-person viewpoint
The Primate Origins of Human Social Cognition
The Role of Perspective-Taking in Children’s Quantity Implicatures
Going Dennettian about Gricean communication
Perspective-taking in deriving implicatures
Morgan's Quaker gun and the species of belief
Ostensive marking as a distinctive feature of human communication
Communication as Socially Extended Active Inference
The cultural evolution of mind-modelling
Metarepresenting in communication
A new perspective on the relationship between metacognition and social cognition
Intentions in interactions
The origins of mindreading
Self-referring as self-directed action
Expressives, directives and assertions
Overlap not gap
Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories
Natural pedagogy
The Role of Language in the Development of False Belief Understanding
Recognizing Communicative Intentions in Infancy
Paul Grice and the philosophy of language
Metarepresentations in an Evolutionary Perspective
Gaze Following in Human Infants Depends on Communicative Signals
Beyond Concepts
The Evolution of Language
Signals
Origins of Human Communication
Meaning
Utterer's Meaning and Intention
Pragmatics, Modularity and Mind-reading
Gricean Communication and Cognitive Development
Nonhuman Primate Communication, Pragmatics, and the Origins of Language
Speech Acts
Functionally referential signals
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |