Chapter 5
Language, coherence and other minds
Article outline
- 5.1Context as other minds
- 5.2Grammar and other minds
- 5.2.1The grounding of definite referents
- a.Grounding definite referents to the shared lexicon
- b.Grounding definite referents to the shared speech
situation
- c.Grounding definite referents to the shared current
discourse
- 5.2.2Speech acts: Access to the interlocutor’s epistemic and deontic
states
- 5.2.3Negation and other minds
- 5.3Relevant social unit and shared cognition
- 5.4Reasoning by feature association – the wrong metaphor?
- 5.5Intermezzo: Other minds and ‘Theory of Mind’
- 5.6Grammar and communication
- 5.6.1Developmental-evolutionary perspective
- 5.6.2Grammar as structure
- 5.6.3Grammar as adaptive function
- 5.6.4Communicating without grammar
- 5.7The whys of grammar: Context, automaticity and other minds
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Acknowledgements
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Notes