LIMITATIONS OF NON-GRICEAN APPROACHES TO THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN COMMUNICATIVE ABILITIES

• Authors: Włodarczyk Mateusz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, I examine two non-Gricean approaches to the evolution of human communicative abilities: Mitchell S. Green’s account 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 explain 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.

Keywords

EN

EVOLUTION; COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; GRICEAN COMMUNICATION; GRICE PAUL

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 360 – 398

Contributors

author

Włodarczyk Mateusz

• University of Szczecin, Institute of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Krakowska 71-79, 71-017 Szczecin, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28205