Organon F
Volume 28, May 2021, Issue 2, Pages 360–398
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article | Special issue on The Origins of Meaning and the Nature of Speech Acts
Limitations of Non-Gricean Approaches to the Evolution of Human Communicative Abilities
Mateusz Włodarczyk
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28205
In this paper, I examine two non-Gricean approaches to the evolution of human communicative abilities: Mitchell S. Green’s ac- count of organic meaning and Dorit Bar-On’s account of expressive communication. I argue that the non-Gricean approaches in question face certain problems: i) they focus on the adaptive function of communicative behaviours and ignore questions about their mechanisms, ontogeny and phylogeny; ii) the notion of organic meaning does not constitute an intermediate form between natural and non-natural meaning but should rather be understood as a special case of natural meaning; iii) the non-Gricean approaches under scrutiny cannot ex- plain the transition from dyadic to triadic communication. I also outline the differences between Gricean and non-Gricean approaches and argue against the usefulness of the non-Gricean approaches discussed in this paper in explaining the evolution of human communicative abilities.
Evolution of communication; evolution of language; expressive communication; Gricean communication; organic meaning.
Author
Mateusz Włodarczyk 
Affiliation
University of Szczecin
Address
Institute of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, University of Szczecin ul. Krakowska 71-79, 71-017 Szczecin, Poland.
Received
28 August 2019
Revised
8 June 2020
Accepted
20 September 2020
Published online
17 March 2021
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Włodarczyk, M. (2021). Limitations of Non-Gricean Approaches to the Evolution of Human Communicative Abilities. Organon F, 28(2), 360–398. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28205
Chicago
Włodarczyk, Mateusz. 2021. "Limitations of Non-Gricean Approaches to the Evolution of Human Communicative Abilities." Organon F 28 (2): 360–398. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28205
Harvard
Włodarczyk, M. (2021). Limitations of Non-Gricean Approaches to the Evolution of Human Communicative Abilities. Organon F, 28(2), pp. 360–398. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28205
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