From Meaning to Use

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Chapter 4 advocates a ‘pragmatics-first’ approach to language evolution. Two different conceptions of pragmatics are distinguished. On the first, Carnapian conception, pragmatics concerns the relevance of various objective contextual parameters to the determination of the semantic content communicative signals. On the second, Gricean conception, pragmatics concerns only those aspects of communication that essentially involve the production of utterances with a special kind of audience-directed communicative intention and their attribution to producers by their interpreters. A recent formal—semantic-pragmatic—analysis of monkey calls, due to Schlenker et al. (2014 and elsewhere) is critically evaluated. It is argued that this analysis is at best apt to reveal monkey call communication as functionally pragmatic. The chapter concludes by introducing an intermediate conception of pragmatics, which applies less indiscriminately than Carnapian pragmatics, but which has a broader scope than that of Gricean pragmatics. Intermediate pragmatics is claimed to improve on the semantic-pragmatic analysis, insofar as it accommodates a key Gricean insight (which is identified along the way).
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Authors Dorit Bar‐On
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Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/9780191862564.003.0004
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