TY - INPR ID - cogprints851 UR - http://cogprints.org/851/ A1 - Sperber, Dan Y1 - 2000/// N2 - 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? PB - Oxford University Press, New York KW - evolution KW - psychology KW - origin of language KW - metarepresentation KW - cognition KW - communication KW - reasoning KW - representation KW - theory of mind KW - Machiavellian hypothesis KW - mindreading KW - comprehension KW - pragmatics KW - relevance theory TI - Metarepresentations in an evolutionary perspective AV - public ER -