creators_name: Origgi, Gloria
creators_name: Sperber, Dan
editors_name: Carruthers, Peter
editors_name: Chamberlain, Andrew Cambridge University Press
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 2000-03-04
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:53
metadata_visibility: show
title: EVOLUTION, COMMUNICATION AND THE PROPER FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE
ispublished: inpress
subjects: bio-evo
subjects: evol-psy
subjects: ling-prag
subjects: phil-lang
subjects: phil-mind
subjects: phil-sci
full_text_status: public
keywords: evolution, evolution of language, philosophy of language, philosophy of biology, Ruth Millikan, Paul Grice, relevance theory, pragmatics, culture, biological function, origin of language, metarepresentation, mindreading, theory of mind
abstract: Language is both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. Our aim here is to discuss, in an evolutionary perspective, the articulation of these two aspects of language. For this, we draw on the general conceptual framework developed by Ruth Millikan (1984) while at the same time dissociating ourselves from her view of language.
date: 2000
date_type: published
publication: Evolution and the Human Mind: Language, Modularity and Social Cognition
publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Origgi, Gloria and Sperber, Dan  (2000) EVOLUTION, COMMUNICATION AND THE PROPER FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE.  [Book Chapter]    (In Press)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/403/1/evo-lang.htm