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Pragmatics and Language Evolution

2018-09-19

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<p>Pragmatics is the branch of linguistics that deals with language use in context. It looks at the meaning linguistic utterances can have beyond their literal meaning (implicature), and also at presupposition and turn taking in conversation. Thus, pragmatics lies on the interface between language and social cognition.From the point of view of both speaker and listener, doing pragmatics requires reasoning about th...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/5sqfj

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