Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special

212 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

The grammar of engagement I: framework and initial exemplification (2017, background): “The ability to achieve such primary intersubjectivity (Trevarthen, 1979; cf. Scott-Phillips, 2015; Sperber & Wilson, 1986) has been argued to be a prerequisite for the evolution of culture, and in particular of those conventionalised cultural manifestations which form linguistic signs.2 Achieving…”
How Gullible are We? A Review of the Evidence from Psychology and Social Science (2017, background): “To the extent that human communication is adaptive (see, e.g., Pinker & Bloom, 1990; Scott-Phillips, 2014), humans should not, on average, be gullible.”