scholarly journals Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, The Enigma of Reason

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-282
Author(s):  
Bryon Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Dan Sperber

Intimation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. R. F. Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Relevance Theory ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
Strongly Connected ◽  
Dan Sperber ◽  
Paul Grice

The communicative scale is introduced. What is fundamental to communication is the intention of the communicator rather than the codes that languages employ. Following the model first proposed by Paul Grice and developed in Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson’s ‘relevance theory’, the structure of communicative intentionality is understood to be recursive: its underlying form is ‘I want you to know that I want you to know’. This leaves room for a simpler kind of transmission, to be called ‘intimation’, whose underlying form would be ‘I want you to know’. If communication is a transmission at the ‘full-on’ position of the scale, and if the switch is off when no communication is intended, then intimation would be at the intermediate, ‘half-on’ position. Intimation is particularly useful in contexts where discretion, suggestiveness, or plausible deniability are needed. It is strongly connected to self-presentation in social life (as studied by Erving Goffman).

Mercier, Hugo, and Dan Sperber: The enigma of reason

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-468
Author(s):  
Paul J. D’Ambrosio
Keyword(s):  
Dan Sperber

PRAGMATICS: CRITICAL CONCEPTS. VOL. 1: DAWN AND DELINEATION. VOL. 2: SPEECH ACT THEORY AND PARTICULAR SPEECH ACTS. VOL. 3: INDEXICALS AND REFERENCE. VOL. 4: PRESUPPOSITION, IMPLICATURE, AND INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS. VOL. 5: COMMUNICATION, INTERACTION, AND DISCOURSE. VOL. 6: PRAGMATICS: GRAMMAR, PSYCHOLOGY, AND SOCIOLOGY.Asa Kasher (Ed.). London: Routledge, 1998. Vol. 1: Pp. xi + 154. Vol. 2: Pp. vi + 511. Vol. 3: Pp. 217. Vol. 4: Pp. vi + 722. Vol. 5: Pp. vi + 490. Vol. 6: Pp. vi + 559. $905.00 cloth.

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-122
Author(s):  
Susan Foster-Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
First Language ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Indirect Speech Acts ◽  
Dan Sperber ◽  
Paul Grice ◽  
François Recanati

This six-volume, beautifully bound, boxed set contains 112 reprinted papers covering the history and development of modern theoretical pragmatics from its beginnings back in the 1940s and '50s with Charles Morris, Rudolf Camap, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, via the major works in the 1970s of those such as Stalnaker, Bach and Hamish, J. L. Austin, John Searle, and Paul Grice, to the more recent contributions of, among many others, Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, François Recanati, and Anna Wierzbicka. The bulk of the contributions, either free-standing papers or sections from books, come out of what one might term a philosophical approach to pragmatics, but toward the end of the collection there is an attempt to cover more ethnographically rooted approaches and even to get into applied pragmatic issues related to aphasia, first language acquisition, second language acquisition (one paper), and politics.

: Le Savoir Des Anthropologues . Dan Sperber.

1984 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 431-432
Author(s):  
Pierre Maranda
Keyword(s):  
Dan Sperber

Reviews

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Dan Sperber

AbstractPaul H. Portner (2005).Ira A. Noveck and Dan Sperber (eds.) (2004).Stephen Barker (2004).

scholarly journals A kulturális evolúció újabb elméletei a hagyományok tükrében

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Katalin Mund
Keyword(s):  
Dan Sperber

A tanulmány a kulturális evolúció két, többek által riválisnak tekintett elméletének, nevezetesen Dawkins mém- teóriájának, valamint Dan Sperber ún. epidemiológiai elméletének alkalmazhatóságát és korlátainak lehetőségeit vizsgálja. Ahelyett azonban, hogy egy újabb teoretikus konstrukciót hozna létre, inkább a modellek konkrét alkalmazhatóságát állítja előtérbe. Ehhez a néprajz és a kulturális antropológia eddigi eredményeit, s ennek kapcsán bizonyos módszertani elemeit hívja segítségül, elsősorban is Robert Redfield “kis tradíció - nagy tradíció” elméletét.

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