Richard Moore
List of John Benjamins publications for which Richard Moore plays a role.
Articles
2014. Ontogenetic Constraints on Grice’s Theory of Communication. Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition, Matthews, Danielle (ed.), pp. 87–104
For a number of reasons Paul Grice’s account of the nature of intentional communication has often been supposed to be cognitively too complex to work as an account of the communicative interactions of pre-verbal children. Here I review a number of different formulations of this problem, and… read more | Article
2013. Three-year-olds understand communicative intentions without language, gestures, or gaze. Interaction Studies 14:1, pp. 62–80
The communicative interactions of very young children almost always involve language (based on conventions), gesture (based on bodily deixis or iconicity) and directed gaze. In this study, ninety-six children (3;0 years) were asked to determine the location of a hidden toy by understanding a… read more | Article