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Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction. Tomasello argues that human cooperative communication rests on a psychological infrastructure of shared intentionality (joint attention, common ground), evolved originally for collaboration and culture more generally. The basic motives of the infrastructure are helping and sharing: humans communicate to request help, inform others of things helpfully, and share attitudes as a way of bonding within the cultural group.

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• Full title: Origins of Human Communication
• Author: Tomasello
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408
• EAN: 9780262515207
• ISBN: 0262515202
• ID: 04397523
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 440 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 138 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. August 2010

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