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linguistic communication theory of mind mind-reading mindreading modularity evolutionary psychology evolution of language linguistics philosophy of language pragmatics relevance relevance theorySujets proches
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Dan Sperber et al., « Pragmatics, Modularity and Mind-reading », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.09c68f...
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The central problem for pragmatics is that sentence meaning vastly underdetermines speaker's meaning. The goal of pragmatics is to explain how the gap between sentence meaning and speaker's meaning is bridged. This paper defends the broadly Gricean view that pragmatic interpretation is ultimately an exercise in mind-reading, involving the inferential attribution of intentions. We argue, however, that the interpretation process does not simply consist in applying general mind-reading abilities to a particular (communicative) domain. Rather, it involves a dedicated comprehension module, with its own special principles and mechanisms. We show how such a metacommunicative module might have evolved, and what principles and mechanisms it might contain.
