Anne Reboul
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anne Reboul plays a role.
2019 Pragmatic abilities in bilinguals: The case of scalar implicatures Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:2, pp. 314–340 | Article
The experimental literature on the pragmatic abilities of bilinguals is rather sparse. The only study investigating adult second language (L2) learners (Slabakova, 2010) found an increase of pragmatic responses in that population relative to monolinguals. The results of studies on early… read more
2012 Language: Between cognition, communication and culture Culture – Language – Cognition, Dascal, Marcelo † (ed.), pp. 295–316 | Article
Everett’s main claim is that language is a “cultural tool”, created by hominids for communication and social cohesion. I examine the meaning of the expression “cultural tool” in terms of the influence of language on culture (i.e. the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) or of the influence of culture on… read more
2010 Cooperation and competition in apes and humans: A comparative and pragmatic approach to human uniqueness Pragmatics & Cognition 18:2, pp. 423–441 | Article
In Why We Cooperate (2009), Tomasello addresses the problem of human uniqueness, which has become the focus for a lot of recent research at the frontier between the Humanities and the Life Sciences. Being both a developmental psychologist and a primatologist, Tomasello is especially well suited to… read more
2007 Does the Gricean distinction between natural and non-natural meaning exhaustively account for all instances of communication? Pragmatics & Cognition 15:2, pp. 253–276 | Article
The Gricean distinction between natural meaning and non-natural meaning has generally been taken to apply to communication in general. However, there is some doubts that the distinction exhaustively accounts for all instances of communication. Notably, some animal communication seems to be… read more
2001 Review of Fuchs & Robert (1999): Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations Pragmatics & Cognition 9:2, pp. 329–341 | Review