Intermediate Pragmatics and Psychologically Mediated Communication

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Chapter 5 concerns the character and scope of intermediate pragmatics (introduced in Chapter 4) and explains its potential to aid pragmatics-first approaches in meeting the Gricean challenge. The aim is to identify aspects of animal communication (if such exist) that could shed specific light on the evolutionary emergence of Gricean mindreading and communication. The chapter focuses on one key element among the different threads in the Gricean view of communication: the notion of psychologically mediated communication. This notion, it is argued, both ought to and can be accommodated even by those who reject the claim that Gricean mindreading is essential to linguistic communication and its emergence. Drawing on the concept of mind-minding introduced in Chapter 3, it is explained how basic mind-minders can represent the mental states of others by recognizing them as affordances rather than by conceptualizing them, or by attributing them to others as underlying causes of observed behaviors.
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Authors Dorit Bar‐On
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Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/9780191862564.003.0005
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