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Are Non-Human Primates Gricean? Intentional Communication in Language Evolution [Are Non-Human Primates Gricean? Intentional Communication in Language Evolution]
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Are Non-Human Primates Gricean? Intentional Communication in Language Evolution [Are Non-Human Primates Gricean? Intentional Communication in Language Evolution] |
In: | Pulse: the Journal of Science and Culture, 5, 2018, 5, S. 70-88 |
veröffentlicht: |
Central European University
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ISSN: |
2416-111X |
EISSN: | 2416-111X |
Zusammenfassung: | The field of language evolution has recently made Gricean pragmatics central to its task, particularly within comparative studies between human and non-human primate communication. The standard model of Gricean communication requires a set of complex cognitive abilities, such as belief attribution and understanding nested higher-order mental states. On this model, non-human primate communication is then of a radically different kind to ours. Moreover, the cognitive demands in the standard view are also too high for human infants, who nevertheless do engage in communication. In this paper I critically assess the standard view and contrast it with an alternative, minimal model of Gricean communication recently advanced by Richard Moore. I then raise two objections to the minimal model. The upshot is that this model is conceptually unstable and fails to constitute a suitable alternative as a middle ground between full-fledged human communication and simpler forms of non-human animal communication. |
Format: | E-Article |
Quelle: |
CEEOL Central and Eastern European Online Library sid-53-col-ceeol |
Sprache: | Englisch |