Mazzarella, D;
Pouscoulous, N;
(2021)
Pragmatics and epistemic vigilance: A developmental perspective.
Mind & Language
, 36
(3)
pp. 355-376.
10.1111/mila.12287.
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Abstract
Any form of overt communication, be it gestural or linguistic, involves pragmatic skills. This article investigates the social–cognitive foundations of pragmatic development from infancy to late childhood and argues that it is driven by, among other things, the emergence of the capacities to assess the communicator's competence (e.g. perceptual access, epistemic states) and honesty . We discuss the implications of this proposal and show how it sheds new light on the developmental trajectory of a series of pragmatic phenomena, with a specific focus on the development of irony comprehension.
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