Evolution, communication, and the proper function of language

By Gloria Origgi, Dan Sperber. 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Cultural Studies, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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WHY TALK? SPEAKING AS SELFISH BEHAVIOUR (2006, background): “Where listeners infer meaning, they are, in the terminology of animal communication, reading a mind: they use the utterance to gain an insight into the speaker's intended meaning (Origgi & Sperber, 2000).”
Pragmatics, modularity and mindreading (2002, background): “This is sometimes done by postulating hidden linguistic constituents or multiple ambiguities; approaches along these lines are suggested by Millikan (1984, 1988) and Stanley (this volume) (for discussion, see Origgi and Sperber, 2000; Carston, 2000; and Breheny, this volume).”
Deception as a Derived Function of Language (2016, background): “Moreover, language probably serves several other important secondary functions (Millikan, 1984; Origgi and Sperber, 2000), among them cultural transmission, pedagogy, cooperation, and sexual advertisement, as well as deception (Számadó and Szathmáry, 2006).”
Origins of Meaning: Must We 'Go Gricean'? (2013, background): “Linguistic communication necessarily ‘involves a form of mindreading where, by speaking, the speaker helps the hearer read her mind’ (Origgi and Sperber, 2000, p. 18).”
Empathy, Connectedness and Organisation (2012, result): “Studies have been replicated with similar results (e.g. Gallese et al. 2004; Iacobani et al. 2005; Origgi and Sperber 2000).”
The relation between language and theory of mind in development and evolution (2002, background): “However, claims of co-development and co-evolution are easily made; the challenge is to flesh out the details of such a claim and say exactly how and why the two faculties co-emerged.”
Truthfulness and Relevance (2002, background): “…be literally or convention- 18 Although her notion of a convention, and of the role of intention in communication, differs from those of Lewis or Grice, Ruth Millikan (1984) also bases her philosophy of language on a version of the norm of truthfulness (see Origgi and Sperber 2000 for discussion).”