creators_name: Sperber, Dan
editors_name: Sperber, Dan
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 2000-03-03
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:20
metadata_visibility: show
title: Metarepresentations in an evolutionary perspective
ispublished: inpress
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: evol-psy
subjects: ling-prag
subjects: phil-lang
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: evolution, psychology, origin of language, metarepresentation, cognition, communication, reasoning, representation, theory of mind, Machiavellian hypothesis, mindreading, comprehension, pragmatics, relevance theory
abstract: Humans are expert users of metarepresentations. How has this human metarepresentational capacity evolved? In order to contribute to the ongoing debate on this question, the chapter focuses on three more specific issues: i. How do humans metarepresent representations? ii. What came first: language, or metarepresentations? iii. Do humans have more than one metarepresentational ability?
date: 2000
date_type: published
publication: Metarepresentations
publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Sperber, Dan  (2000) Metarepresentations in an evolutionary perspective.  [Book Chapter]    (In Press)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/851/1/metarep.htm