An evolutionary approach to emotional communication
| Autor: | Hugo Mercier, Thomas C. Scott-Phillips, Guillaume Dezecache |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Institut Jean-Nicod (IJN), Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS Paris (DEC), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département de Philosophie - ENS Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL) |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Linguistics and Language
Class (computer programming) media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Embarrassment 050109 social psychology Pragmatics 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics [SCCO]Cognitive science Surprise Artificial Intelligence 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Emotional expression Complement (linguistics) Psychology Ostensive definition Cognitive psychology media_common Meaning (linguistics) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Pragmatics Journal of Pragmatics, Elsevier, 2013, 59, Special Issue : SI Pages : 221-233. ⟨10.1016/j.pragma.2013.06.007⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0378-2166 1879-1387 |
| Popis: | International audience; The study of pragmatics is typically concerned with ostensive communication (especially through language), in which we not only provide evidence for our intended speaker meaning, but also make manifest our intention to do so. This is not, however, the only way in which humans communicate. We also communicate in many non-ostensive ways, and these expressions often interplay with and complement ostensive communication. For example, fear, embarrassment, surprise and other emotions are often expressed with linguistic expressions, which they complement through changes in prosodic cues, facial and bodily muscular configuration, pupil dilatation and skin colouration, among others. However, some basic but important questions about non-ostensive communication, in particular those concerned with evolutionary stability, are unaddressed. Our objective is to address, albeit tentatively, this issue, focusing our discussion on one particular class of non-ostensive communication: emotional expressions. We argue that existing solutions to the problem of stability of emotional communication are problematic and we suggest introducing a new class of mechanisms mechanisms of emotional vigilance that, we think, more adequately accounts for the stability of emotional communication. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
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