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Author:   Ines Adornetti ,  Francesco Ferretti
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
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9781032486512

ISBN 10:   1032486511
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Contents List of Contributors Introduction: What is evolutionary pragmatics? (Ines Adornetti & Francesco Ferretti) Part I: Animal communication Chapter 2: Animal signalling between informing and influencing: setting the stage for a pragmatic-rhetorical model of communication (Ines Adornetti) Chapter 3: The cognitive foundations of ostensive-inferential communication: Insight from the study of non-human primates’ communication (Alessandra Chiera) Part II: Communication channel and meaning construction Chapter 4: The Role of Communication Channel in the Emergence of Novel Communication Systems in Experimental Semiotics (Michael Pleyer, Angelo D. Delliponti, Svetlana Kuleshova, Marek Placiński, Renato Raia, Giulia Sanguedolce, Marta Sibierska) Chapter 5: A Usage-Based Perspective on Evolutionary Pragmatics (Michael Pleyer & Stefan Hartmann) Part III: Cooperation and competition in the emergence of language structure Chapter 6: A four-stage model of the co-evolution of hominin cooperation and communication (Jordan Zlatev, Aaron Stutz & Przemyslaw Żywiczyński). Chapter 7: Agonistic Conversation. A cognitive-interactive perspective on the origin of grammar. (Francesco Ferretti) Chapter 8: The role of early expressive uses of language in brain and language evolution (Antonio Benítez-Burraco & Ljiljana Progovac) Index

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Ines Adornetti is an associate professor of Philosophy of Language and Language Disorders at Roma Tre University, Italy. Francesco Ferretti is a full professor of Philosophy of Language and Cognitive Sciences at Roma Tre University, Italy.

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