Introducing Evolutionary Pragmatics

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.

• ContentsList of ContributorsIntroduction: What is evolutionary pragmatics? (Ines Adornetti & Francesco Ferretti)Part I: Animal communicationChapter 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 constructionChapter 4: The Role of Communication Channel in the Emergence of Novel Communication Systems in Experimental Semiotics (Michael Pleyer, Angelo D. Delliponti, Svetlana Kuleshova, Marek Placiński, 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 Żywiczyński).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)Index