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Pragmatics and epistemic vigilance: A developmental perspective
Author(s) -
Mazzarella Diana,
Pouscoulous Nausicaa
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/mila.12287
Subject(s) - pragmatics , psychology , theory of mind , cognitive development , comprehension , cognition , perception , perspective (graphical) , irony , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , epistemology , linguistics , computer science , philosophy , neuroscience , artificial intelligence
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.