creators_name: Origgi, Gloria creators_name: Sperber, Dan editors_name: Carruthers, Peter editors_name: Chamberlain, Andrew Cambridge University Press type: bookchapter datestamp: 2002-01-13 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:52 metadata_visibility: show title: Evolution, Communication, and the proper function of language ispublished: pub subjects: evol-psy subjects: ling-prag subjects: phil-mind 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 pagerange: 140-169 refereed: FALSE referencetext: Baron-Cohen, S. (1995) Mindblindness, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Bickerton, D. (1990) Language and Species, Chicago : The University of Chicago Press. Bloom, Paul (1997). Intentionality and word learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1: 9-12. Boyd, R.; Richerson, P.J. (1985) Culture and the Evolutionary Process, Chicago : The University of Chicago Press. Byrne, R.W.; Whiten, A. (eds.) (1988) Machiavellian Intelligence : Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes and Humans, Oxford : Clarendon Press. Byrne, R. W.; Whiten, A. (eds.) 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