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Chater, Nick and Christiansen, Morten H. (2023) From the pragmatics of charades to the creation of language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46 . e7. doi:10.1017/S0140525X22000735
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22000735
Abstract
We agree with Heintz & Scott-Phillips that pragmatics does not supplement, but is prior to and underpins, language. Indeed, human non-linguistic communication is astonishingly rich, flexible, and subtle, as we illustrate through the game of charades, where people improvise communicative signals when linguistic channels are blocked. The route from non-linguistic charade-like communication to combinatorial language involves (1) local processes of conventionalization and grammaticalization and (2) spontaneous order arising from mutual constraints between different communicative signals.
| Item Type: | Journal Item | ||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Language and languages, Pragmatics, Cognition -- Psychological aspects, Communication, Evolutionary psychology, Social perception | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0140-525X | ||||||
| Official Date: | 17 February 2023 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 46 | ||||||
| Number of Pages: | 1 | ||||||
| Article Number: | e7 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0140525X22000735 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 March 2023 | ||||||
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