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Pragmatics and the aims of language evolution

Journal article published in 2016 by Thomas C. Scott Phillips
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Abstract

Pragmatics has historically played a relatively peripheral role in language evolution research. This is a profound mistake. Here I describe how a pragmatic perspective can inform language evolution in the most fundamental way: by making clear what the natural objects of study are, and hence what the aims of the field should be.