Category Archives: Human communication

Speaking Our Minds: Why Human Communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Giorgio Bertini

Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective tell us about the nature of language and … Continue reading →

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Origins of Human Communication

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Giorgio Bertini

Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the … Continue reading →

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On Interlistening and the Idea of Dialogue

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

Among the many analytical categories bequeathed by linguistics to the study of dialogue, some inadvertently conceal more than they reveal. In addition to instantiating such fictions as speaker and listener or langue and parole, these categories tend to privilege the … Continue reading →