Dan Sperber

Bibliography (2006)

 

Books:

(1973) Le structuralisme en anthropologie. (Paris: Le Seuil Collection “Points”)
- First published: in O. Ducrot et al. Qu'est-ce que le structuralisme? (Paris, Le Seuil, 1968).
- Translated in Brasilian, German,  Japanese, Spanish.

(1974) Le symbolisme en général. ( Paris : Hermann).
- English translation:  Rethinking symbolism (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1975). 
- Also translated in Brasilian, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish.

(1982) Le savoir des anthropologues (Paris: Hermann).
 - English version: On anthropological knowledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985). 
- Also translated in German, Italian, Japanese.

 (1986) (With Deirdre Wilson) Relevance: Communication and cognition. ( Oxford : Blackwell; Cambridge , Mass. : Harvard University Press).
- French translation: La pertinence: communication et cognition. (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1989).
- Second Edition, revised, with a new Postface (Oxford: Blaxkwell, 1995)
- Also translated in German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish.

 (1996) Explaining culture: A naturalistic approach. (Oxford: Blackwell).
- French version: La contagion des idées (Paris, Odile Jacob, 1996)
- Also tranlated in Spanish, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese.

 (1999) (Debate with Roger-Pol Droit)  Des Idées qui viennent (Paris: Odile Jacob)

 

Books edited:

(1992) (With Daniel Andler, Pierre Jacob, Joëlle Proust,and François Recanati) Epistémologie et cognition. (Paris: Mardaga).

(1995) (With David Premack and Ann James Premack) Causal cognition: A multidisciplinary debate. (Oxford : Oxford University Press)

(2000) Metarepresentations: A mutidisciplinary perspective. ( Oxford : Oxford University Press)

(2004) (With Ira Noveck)  Experimental Pragmatics, Palgrave

 

 

Main articles

(1967) Leach et les anthropologues, Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie, XLIII, 123-142.

(1971) (With  Pierre Smith) Mythologiques de Georges Dumézil, Annales, XXVI, 559-586.

(1974) Contre certains a priori anthropologiques. In E. Morin and M. Piatelli-Palmarini (éds.), L'unité de l'homme (Paris, Le Seuil) 491-512.

(1974) La notion d'aînesse et ses paradoxes chez les Dorzé d'Ethiopie méridionale, Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie, LVI, 63-78.
- English version: Paradoxes of seniority among the Dorze. In H. Marcus (ed.) Proceedings of the First United States Conference on Ethiopian Studies (East-Lansing, 1975) 209-221.

(1975) Pourquoi les animaux parfaits, les hybrides et les monstres sont-ils bons à penser symboliquement?, L'Homme, XV (2) 5-24.
-Italian translation revised and expanded: Animali perfetti, ibridi e mostri. (Roma-Napoli: Edizioni Theoria. 1986) 74p.
- English version revised and expanded, with an new "foreword":
Why are perfect animals, hybrids, and monsters food for symbolic thought? Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 8-2, (1996) 143-169.

(1975) Rudiments de rhétorique cognitive, Poétique: Revue de Théorie et d'Analyse Littéraire (23) 389-415.
- English translation :
Rudiments of cognitive rhetoric. To appear in Rhetoric Society Quarterly
-Italian translation .

(1978) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Les ironies comme mentions, Poétique: Revue de Théorie et d'Analyse Littéraire (36)395-412.
- English version: Irony and the use-mention distinction. In P. Cole (ed.) Radical pragmatics (New-York, Academic Press, 1981) 295-318.

(1979) La pensée symbolique est-elle pré-rationelle?. In M. Izard and P. Smith (éds.) La fonction symbolique: essais d'anthropologie (Paris, Gallimard) 17-42.
- English version: Is symbolic thought prerational?. In Mary Foster & Stanley Brandes (eds.), Symbol as Sense (New-York, Academic Press, 1980) 25-44.
- Italian translation 

(1979) Remarques sur l'absence de contribution positive des anthropologues au problème de l'innéité. In M. Piatelli-Palmarini (éd.) Théories du langage, théories de l'apprentissage (Paris, Le Seuil) 361-365.
- Englsih translation in Piatelli-Palmarini (ed.) Language and learning: the debate between Piaget and Chomsky (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1980) 245-249.

(1979) Claude Lévi-Strauss. In John Sturrock (ed.), Structuralism and since (Oxford, Oxford University Press) 19-51.
- Expanded French version in Le Savoir des anthropologues (1982)
- German, Italian, Japanese and English translations of the expanded French version.

(1979) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Remarques sur l'interprétation des énoncés selon Paul Grice, Communications (30) 80-94.
- English version: On Grice's theory of conversation. In P. Werth (ed.) Conversation and discourse (London, Croom Helm 1981).
- Spanish translation 
- Reprinted in: Asa Kasher (ed.): Pragmatics: Critical Concepts, Volume 4, (London: Routledge, 1997) 347-368.

(1979) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Ordered entailments: an alternative to presuppositional theories. In Choon-Kyu Oh & D.A.Dineen (eds.), Syntax and semantics 11: Presuppositions (New-York & London, Academic Press) 299-323.

(1980) The management of misfortune among the Dorze. In Robert Hess (ed.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference onEthiopian Studies (Chicago, Office of Publications Services, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle) 207-215.

(1981) L'interprétation en anthropologie, L'Homme, XXI (1) 69-92.
- Italian translation .

(1981) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Pragmatics, Cognition, X (1-3) 281-286.

(1982) Apparently irrational beliefs. In S. Lukes & M. Hollis (eds.), Rationality and relativism (Oxford, Blackwell) 149-180.
- Version française in Le Savoir des Anthropologues (1982)
-Italian Japanese, German translations .

(1982) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Mutual knowledge and relevance in theories of comprehension. In N. Smith (ed.) Mutual Knowledge (London, Academic Press) 61-131.
- Reprinted in: Asa Kasher (ed.): Pragmatics: Critical Concepts, Volume 4, (London: Routledge, 1997) 369-382.

(1984) (With  Julia Jorgensen and George A. Miller) A test of the mention theory of irony. Journal of experimental psychology: general, Vol. 113 (1) 112-120.

(1984) Verbal irony: Pretense or echoic mention? Journal of experimental psychology: general, Vol. 113 (1) 127-133.

(1984) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Pragmatics: An overview. In Susan Georges (ed) From the linguistic to the social context. (Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice) 21-41.

(1985) Anthropology and psychology: towards an epidemiology of representations (The Malinowski Memorial Lecture 1984). Man (N.S.)20, 73-89.

(1985) (With  Deirdre Wilson) On finding the context for comprehension. In J. Allwood & E. Hjelmquist (eds.) Foregrounding background. (Lund, Sweden: Bokforlaget Doxa AB) 51-64.

(1986) Issues in the ontology of culture. In Ruth Barcan Marcus et al. (eds.), Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VII. (Elsevier Science Publishers) 557-571.

(1986) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Loose talk. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society New Series - vol LXXXVI, 153-171.
- Reprinted in Steven Davis (ed) Pragmatics: a Reader. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).

(1986) (With  Deirdre Wilson) On defining relevance. In R. Grandy & Richard Warner (eds.) Philosophical grounds of rationality (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 243-258.

(1986) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Inference and implicature. In Charles Travis (ed.) Meaning and Interpretation (Oxford, Oxford University Press) 45-75.
- reprinted in Steven Davis (ed) Pragmatics: a Reader. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991)

(1986) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Inference and implicature in utterance interpretation. In Terry Myers, Keith Brown & Brian McGonigle (eds.) Reasoning and discourse processes (London, Academic Press) 241-263.

(1986) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Pragmatics and modularity. In CLS 22, Part 2: Papers from the Parasession on Pragmatics and Grammatical Theory (Chicago, Chicago Linguistic Society) 67-84.
- reprinted in Jacques Montangero & Anastasia Tryphon (eds) Language and cognition (Genève, Fondation Archives Jean Piaget, Cahier No 10, 1989) 139-157.
- reprinted in Steven Davis (ed) Pragmatics: a Reader.
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).
- translation chinoise.

(1987) Les sciences cognitives, les sciences sociales et le matérialisme. Le Débat, 47, Nov.-Déc. 1987, 105-115.
- English version: Culture and Matter. In Jean-Claude Gardin & Christopher S. Peebles (eds), Representations in Archeology (Bloomington. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1991), 56-65.
- Spanish translation,  Italian version.

(1987) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Précis of Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10 (4), December 1987, 697-710.
- Reprinted in: Heimir Geirsson & Michael Losonsky (eds.) Readings in Language and Mind, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986), 460-486.
- Reprinted in: Asa Kasher (ed.): Pragmatics: Critical Concepts, Volume 5, (London: Routledge, 1997) 82-115.

(1987) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Presumptions of relevance, (response to Open Peer Commentary of the above). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10 (4), 736-754.

(1987) (With  Deirdre Wilson) An outline of relevance theory. Notes on linguistics, 39, July 1987, 5-24.

(1988) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Mood and the analysis of non-declarative sentences. In J. Dancy, J. M.E. Moravcsik & C.C.W. Taylor (eds.) Human Agency: Language, Duty, and Value (Stanford: Stanford University Press) 77-101.
- Reprinted in: Asa Kasher (ed.): Pragmatics: Critical Concepts, Volume 2, (London: Routledge, 1997) 268-289.

(1988) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Representation and relevance. In Ruth Kempson ed. Mental Representations: The Interface between Language and Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 133-153.

(1989) L'étude anthropologique des représentations: problèmes et perspectives. In Denise Jodelet (ed.) Les représentations sociales. (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France) 115-130.

(1990) The epidemiology of beliefs. In Colin Fraser & George Gaskell (eds.) The Social Psychological Study of Widespread Beliefs. (Oxford: Clarendon Press) 25-44.
- Italian translation : L'Epidemiologia delle credenze. A cura di Gloria Origgi. Milano: Anabasi.

(1990) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Rhetoric and relevance. In David Wellbery and John Bender eds. The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory , Practice. (Stanford: Stanford University Press) 140-155.
- Spanish translation .

(1990) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Forme linguistique et pertinence. Cahiers de linguistique française 11: Marquage linguistique. Inférence et interprétation dans le discours. 13-35.
- English version: Linguistic Form and Relevance. Lingua 90, 1-25 (1993).

(1990) The evolution of the language faculty: A paradox and its solution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (4), décembre 1990, 756-758.

(1991) (With  Scott Atran) Learning without teaching: its place in culture. In L. Landsmann (ed) Culture, schooling and psychological development, (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex), 39-55.

(1992) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Ressemblance et communication. In Daniel Andler (ed.) Introduction aux sciences cognitives, (Paris: Gallimard, Coll. Folio) 219-238.

(1992) (With  Deirdre Wilson) On verbal irony. Lingua 87, 53-76.
-Reprinted in: J.-J. Weber (éd.). The Stylistic reader: From Roman Jakobson to the present. London: Arnold.

(1993) Interpreting and explaining cultural representations. In Gisli Palsson (ed.), Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse, Oxford: Berg. 162-183. (Revised and expanded version of "L'étude anthropologique des représentations" (1989)).

(1993) Remarques anthropologiques sur le relativisme moral. In Jean-Pierre Changeux (ed.), Fondements naturels de l'éthique, Paris: Odile Jacob. 319-334.

(1993) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Pragmatique et temps. Langages 112, 8-25.

(1993) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Linguistic Form and Relevance. Lingua 90, 1-25. (Revised and expanded English version : Forme linguistique et pertinence (1990)).

(1994) Understanding verbal understanding. In Jean Khalfa (ed.) What is Intelligence?Cambridge University Press, 179-198.

(1994) The modularity of thought and the epidemiology of representations. In Lawrence A. Hirschfeld & Susan A. Gelman eds, Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture. (Cambridge U.P), 39-67.

(1995) How do we communicate? In John Brockman & Katinka Matson (eds) How things are: A science toolkit for the mind. (New York: Morrow) 191-199.

(1995) Introduction. In Dan Sperber, David Premack and Ann James Premack (éds.) Causal cognition: A multidisciplinary debate. (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

(1995) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Postface. In Relevance: Communication and Cognition, Second Edition. (Oxford: Blackwell). 255-280.

(1995) (With  Francesco Cara and Vittorio Girotto) Relevance theory explains the selection task. Cognition 57, 31-95.

(1997) Selection and attraction in cultural evolution. In M.L. Dalla Chiara et al. (eds), Structure and Norms in Science. (Kluwer). 409-426.

(1997) Individualisme méthodologique et cognitivisme. In R. Boudon, F. Chazel & A. Bouvier (eds.) Cognition et sciences sociales. (Paris: Presse Universitaires de France). 123-136.

(1997) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Remarks on relevance theory and the social sciences. Multilingua 16-2/3, 145-151.

(1997) Intuitive and reflective beliefs. In Mind and Language 12 (1). 67-83.

(1998) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Pragmatics and time. In Robyn Carston & Seiji Uchida (eds) Relevance Theory: Applications and implications. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins). 1-22.

(1998) (With  Deirdre Wilson) Irony and relevance: A reply to Drs Seto, Hamamoto and Yamanashi. In Robyn Carston & Seiji Uchida (eds) Relevance Theory: Applications and implications. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins). 283-93.

(1998) (With  Deirdre Wilson) The mapping between the mental and the public lexicon. In Peter Carruthers & Jill Boucher (eds) Language and Thought: Interdiciplinary Themes. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 184-200.

 (1999) (With  Lawrence Hirschfeld) Evolution, Cognition and Culture. In Robert Wilson & Frank Keil (eds) MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press). cxi-cxxxii.

(2000) Metarepresentations in an evolutionary perspective . In Dan Sperber (ed.) Metarepresentations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. (New York: Oxford University Press). 117-137.

(2000) La communication et le sens. In Yves Michaud (ed.) Qu'est-ce que l'humain? Université de tous les savoirs, volume 2. (Paris: Odile Jacob). 119-128.

(2000) An Objection to the memetic approach to culture. In Robert Aunger ed. Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science. Oxford University Press.

(2000) Quelques outils conceptuels pour une science naturelle de la société et de la culture. Raisons Pratiques.

(2001) Conceptual tools for a natural science of society and culture (Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthopology 1999). In Proceedings of the British Academy , 111, 297-317.

(2001) An Evolutionary perspective on testimony and argumentation.  Philosophical Topics. 29. 401-413
- Version française Le témoignage et l’argumentation dans une perspective évolutionniste A paraître dans Raisons Pratiques

(2001) In Defense of massive modularity.

 In Dupoux, E. (ed.)  Language, Brain and Cognitive Development: Essays in Honor of Jacques Mehler Cambridge , Mass. MIT Press.) 47-57.

(2001) (With Vittorio Girotto, Markus Kemmelmeir and Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst) Inept reasoners or pragmatic virtuosos? Relevance and the deontic selection task. Cognition 81, B69-B76.

(2002) (With Deirdre Wilson ) Pragmatics, Modularity and Mind-reading. In Mind and Language. 17. 3-23.

(2002) (With Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst and Guy Politzer) When is a conclusion worth deriving? A relevance-based analysis of indeterminate relational problems. In Thinking & Reasoning. 8 (1), 1-20.

(2002) (With Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst and Laure Carles) Truthfulness and relevance in telling the time. In Mind and Language, 17 457-466.)

(2002) (With Deirdre Wilson) Truthfulness and relevance. In Mind. 111. 583-632

(2002) (With Maurice Bloch) Kinship and evolved psychological dispositions: The Mother's Brother controversy reconsidered. Current Anthropology. 43 (4) 723-748.

(2002) (With Vittorio Girotto) Use or misuse of the selection task? Rejoinder to Fiddick, Cosmides, and Tooby. Cognition 85 (3), 277-290.

(2003) Vers une lecture sans écriture? In Text-e: Le texte à l'heure de l'Internet (Gloria Origgi & Noga Arikha eds.) Paris: Bibliothèque Publique d'Information. 177-190.
- English version, Italian version.

(2003) Culture et modularité. In Changeux, J.-P. (ed.) Gènes et Culture. Paris: Odile Jacob, 277-299.

(2003)  (With Vittorio Girotto)  Does the Selection Task Detect Cheater-Detection? In Fitness, J. & Sterelny, K. (eds.), New directions in evolutionary psychology, Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science, Psychology Press

(2004) (With Deirdre Wilson) Relevance Theory. In (Horn, L.R. & Ward, G. eds.) The Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell, 607-632.

(2004) (With Lawrence Hirschfeld) The cognitive foundations of cultural stability and diversity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 8 (1) 40-46.

(2004) Noveck, I. & Sperber, D. Introduction. In Noveck, I. & Sperber, D. (eds) Experimental Pragmatics, Palgrave

(2004) Van der Henst, Jean-Baptiste & Dan Sperber Testing the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance . In Noveck, I. & Sperber, D. (eds) Experimental Pragmatics, Palgrave

(2005) Modularity and relevance: How can a massively modular mind be flexible and context-sensitive?" The Innate Mind: Structure and Content. Edited by Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, & Stephen Stich

(2005) Conceptual tools for a naturalistic approach to cultural evolution. In S. Levinson & P. Jaisson eds, Evolution and Culture. MIT Press 147-166. (A version of (2001) Conceptual tools for a natural science of society and culture (Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthopology 1999). In Proceedings of the British Academy , 111, 297-317.)

(2005) (With Deirdre Wilson) Pragmatics. To appear in F. Jackson and M. Smith eds., Oxford Handbook of Philosophy)

(2005) Sperber, Dan & Gloria Origgi. Pourquoi parler, comment comprendre ? In Jean-Marie Hombert, Ed. L'origine de l'homme, du langage et des langues. Fayard, Paris, 2005. 236-253

(2006) Why a deep understanding of cultural evolution is incompatible with shallow psychology. (in Nick Enfield and Stephen Levinson (eds.) Roots of Human Sociality, 431-449) 

(2006) Sperber, Dan & Nicolas Claidière Why Modeling Cultural Evolution Is Still Such a Challenge. Biological Theory, Winter 2006, Vol. 1, No. 1: 20-22.

(forthcoming) Luca Surian,  Stefania Caldi and Dan Sperber Attribution of beliefs by 13-month-old infants Psychological Science  

(forthcoming) Sperber, Dan & Nicolas Claidière). Defining and explaining culture (comments on Richerson and Boyd, Not by genes alone). Biology and Philosophy

(forthcoming) Claidière, Nicolas & and Sperber, Dan (in press). The role of attraction in cultural evolution (Reply to J. Henrich and R. Boyd, “On modeling cognition and culture”, Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2 (2), 2002). In Journal of Cognition and Culture

(forthcoming) Seedless Grapes: Nature and Culture.  In Stephen Laurence & Eric Margolis (eds) Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and their Representation, Oxford UP 

(forthcoming) Modularity and relevance: How can a massively modular mind be flexible and context-sensitive?  In The Innate Mind: Structure and Content. Edited by Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, & Stephen Stich .

(forthcoming) (With Lawrence Hirschfeld) Culture and modularity. (To appear in The Innate Mind: Culture and Cognition, Tom Simpson, Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence and Stephen Stich eds). 

(forthcoming) Noveck, Ira & Dan Sperber The why and how of experimental pragmatics: The case of ‘scalar inferences’. To appear in Noel Burton-Roberts (ed) Advances in Pragmatics.

(forthcoming) Sperber, Dan & Deirdre Wilson. A deflationary Account of Metaphors. Dans le Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought Raymond Gibbs (ed.)