AI Article Synopsis
- Pragmatics is fundamental to language, meaning it comes before and supports linguistic communication.
- The richness and flexibility of non-linguistic communication, such as in charades, shows how people can effectively convey meaning without words.
- The development from non-linguistic signals to structured language involves conventionalization and grammaticalization, along with spontaneous organization from the interplay of various communicative signals.
Article Abstract
We agree with Heintz & Scott-Phillips that pragmatics does not supplement, but is prior to and underpins, language. Indeed, human non-linguistic communication is astonishingly rich, flexible, and subtle, as we illustrate through the game of charades, where people improvise communicative signals when linguistic channels are blocked. The route from non-linguistic charade-like communication to combinatorial language involves (1) local processes of conventionalization and grammaticalization and (2) spontaneous order arising from mutual constraints between different communicative signals.
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