Speaking Our Minds · Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special by Scott-Phillips, Thom -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Preface 1. Two Approaches to Communication

1.1 “A good old fiddle” 1.2 The code model 1.3 The expression and recognition of intentions 1.4 The ostensive-inferential model 1.5 Natural codes and conventional codes 1.6 Two meanings of meaning

2. The Emergence of Communication Systems

3. Cognition and Communication

3.1 Pragmatic competence 3.2 The maxims of conversation 3.3 A paradigm for pragmatics 3.4 Recursive mindreading and ostensive communication: the theory 3.5 Recursive mindreading and ostensive communication: the data 3.6 Cooperation and communication

4. The Origins of Ostensive Communication

4.1 Communication and the comparative method 4.2 The difference between intentional and ostensive communication 4.3 Do great apes communicate with ostension and inference? 4.4 Do great apes communicate with natural codes? 4.5 Mindreading in non-human primates 4.6 The social brain 4.7 The advent of ostensive communication

5. Building a Language

5.1 Evolutionary linguistics 5.2 Early ostensive communication 5.3 The first symbols 5.4 A pragmatic perspective on protolanguage 5.5 A short note on grammaticalization 5.6 Cultural attraction, and the naturalness of languages 5.7 The role of communication in language evolution

6. Evolutionary Adaptation

6.1 Adaptationism 6.2 Language and adaptation 6.3 Linguistic communication as social navigation 6.4 Vigilance and argumentation 6.5 The boy who cried ‘Wolf!’, and how he might be stopped 6.6 The evolutionary stability of human communication 6.7 A major transition in the evolution of life?

Epilogue: The Big Questions Answered Glossary References Index of Names Subject Index