Bart Geurts is Professor of the Philosophy of Language and Logic at Radboud University, Nijmegen. His main research interests are in semantic and pragmatic theory, but he has also carried out experimental research and has published on topics related to language development, language change, reasoning, social cognition, and evolution. His many publications include Presupposition and Pronouns (Elsevier, 1999) and Quantity Implicatures (CUP, 2010).Richard Moore is Associate Professor of Philosophy and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Warwick, having previously held positions at Humboldt University Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. His Communicative Mind research group conducts philosophical and empirical research on the relationship between communication and theory of mind in human and non-human great apes.

• List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction 1: Richard Moore: Intentions in human and non-human great ape communication 2: Suzanne Aussems;Richard Moore: Signal use and pragmatics in the first natural language users: Kinds of signs 3: Dorit Bar-On: Pragmatically intermediate protolanguage 4: Daniel W. Harris: Gricean communication, natural language, and human evolution 5: Josh Armstrong: The evolutionary foundations of common ground 6: Kirsty E. Graham;Catherine Hobaiter: Pragmatics in ape gesture 7: Paula Rubio-Fernández: Cultural evolutionary pragmatics: An empirical approach to the relation between language and social cognition 8: Bob van Tiel;Bart Geurts: Conventions, coordination, and arbitrariness 9: Roland Mühlenbernd;Andreas Baumann: Population-level models of evolutionary pragmatics 10: Bart Geurts: Normative pragmatics and social structures: an evolutionary perspective 11: Eva Wittenberg;Ray Jackendoff: The co-evolution of pragmatics and grammatical complexity References Index

As the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to evolutionary pragmatics, it remains an essential read for any researcher seeking a thorough understanding of the field.