Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen is involved.
Articles
2022 Modular vs. diagrammatic reasoning: The pragmatist side of human understanding Pragmatics & Cognition 29:1, pp. 111–134 | Article
Mercier and Sperber (MS) have ventured to undermine an age-old assumption in logic, namely the presence of premise-conclusion structures, in favor of two novel claims: that reasoning is an evolutionary product of a reason-intuiting module in the mind, and that theories of logic teach next to… read more
2006 The evolution of semantics and language‑games for meaning Interaction Studies 7:1, pp. 79–104 | Article
To understand evolutionary aspects of communication is to understand the evolutionary development of the meaning relations between language and the world. Such meaning relations are established by the application of the interactive systems of semantic games. Subsumed under the evolutionary… read more
2004 Grice in the wake of Peirce Pragmatics & Cognition 12:2, pp. 295–315 | Article
I argue that many of the pragmatic notions that are commonly attributed to H. P. Grice, or are reported to be inspired by his work on pragmatics, such as assertion, conventional implicature, cooperation, common ground, common knowledge, presuppositions and conversational strategies, have their… read more