Pragmatics and the aims of language evolution
(2016)
Journal Article
Scott-Phillips, T. (2017). Pragmatics and the aims of language evolution. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24(1), 186-189. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1061-2
Pragmatics has historically played a relatively peripheral role in language evolution research. This is a profound mistake. Here I describe how a pragmatic perspective can inform language evolution in the most fundamental way: by making clear what th... Read More about Pragmatics and the aims of language evolution.