Professor
Dan Sperber
Institut Jean Nicod
Anthropologist; Linguist; Psychologist
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Anthropology and Archaeology
Elected
2007
International Honorary Member
Contributed one of the most interesting and cited theories of pragmatics, which he considers to be an essential component of linguistic theory. Proposed that Relevance Theory plays an essential role in the explanation of human reasoning. Book on the topic is a classic and has been translated into many languages, including French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, and Spanish.
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