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What semantic dementia tells us about the ability to infer others' communicative intentions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2023

François Osiurak Open the ORCID record for François Osiurak [Opens in a new window]  and
Giovanni Federico
François Osiurak
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Laboratoire d’Étude des Mécanismes Cognitifs, Université de Lyon, 5 avenue Pierre Mendès France, 69676 Bron Cedex, France. francois.osiurak@univ-lyon2.fr https://emc.univ-lyon2.fr/fr/equipes/cognition-outils-systemes/francois-osiurak/ Institut Universitaire de France, 1 rue Descartes, 75231 Paris Cedex 5, France
Giovanni Federico
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IRCCS Synlab SDN S.p.A., Via Emanuele Gianturco 113, 80143 Naples, Italy. research@giovannifederico.net http://www.giovannifederico.net/
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Abstract

As Heintz & Scott-Phillips rightly argued, pragmatics has been too commonly considered as a supplement to linguistic communication. Their aim to reorient the study of cognitive pragmatics as the foundation of many distinctive features of human behavior finds echo in the neuropsychological literature on tool use, in which the investigation of semantic dementia challenges the classical semantics versus pragmatics dissociation.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e12
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