Limitations of non-Gricean approaches to the evolution of human communicative abilities

Title:

Limitations of non-Gricean approaches to the evolution of human communicative abilities

Creator:

Włodarczyk, Mateusz

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:70bebf09-9118-4947-92e7-64155c36d7d0
uuid:70bebf09-9118-4947-92e7-64155c36d7d0
doi:10.31577/orgf.2021.28205

Subject:

evolution of communication, evolution of language, expressive communication, Gricean communication, and organic meaning

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model:article and TEXT

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bez média and svazek

Description:

In this paper, I examine two non-Gricean approaches to the evolution of human communicative abilities: Mitchell S. Green’s ac- count of organic meaning and Dorit Bar-On’s account of expressive communication. I argue that the non-Gricean approaches in question face certain problems: i) they focus on the adaptive function of communicative behaviours and ignore questions about their mechanisms, ontogeny and phylogeny; ii) the notion of organic meaning does not constitute an intermediate form between natural and non-natural meaning but should rather be understood as a special case of natural meaning; iii) the non-Gricean approaches under scrutiny cannot ex- plain the transition from dyadic to triadic communication. I also outline the differences between Gricean and non-Gricean approaches and argue against the usefulness of the non-Gricean approaches discussed in this paper in explaining the evolution of human communicative abilities.

Language:

Slovak

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

360-398

Source:

Organon F: filozofický časopis | 2021 Volume:28 | Number:2

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