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Publication details [#31422]

Wilson, David and Dan Sperber. 2002. Pragmatics, Modularity and Mind-reading. Mind & Language 17 (1-2) : 3–23.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

modularity of mind | pragmatics | sentence meaning | speaker meaning

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

0268-1064

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/mila

Annotation

This paper argues that pragmatic interpretation constitutes an exercise in mind-reading and involves a metacommunicative module with its own special principles and mechanisms.