Jean-Louis DESSALLES
Enseignant-chercheur en sciences cognitives

 

 

Département Informatique & Réseaux

Telecom ParisTech

(Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications)


 

 

 

My research focuses on the quest for fundamental principles underlying the language faculty and its biological origins. I am particularly interested in the study of narrative interest and argumentative relevance, and in the conditions that make honest communication among selfish agents possible (to explain the evolutionary emergence of language).
But see other topics.

Why we talk . . .

What we tell . . .

How we discuss . . .

Simplicity Theory

visit  simplicitytheory.org

*   Research topics

*   Simplicity Theory

*   Argumentative relevance

*   Emergence of language

*   Other topics

 

*   Publications 

* Scientific papers (148)

* Interviews and popular papers

* Talks (185)  (past and future)

 

 

*   Books:

La pertinence
et ses origines cognitives

nouvelles théories

 

Les origines de la culture :
les origines du langage
(avec P. Picq et B. Victorri)
Le Pommier, Paris: 2006

Why We Talk
The evolutionary origins
of language
Oxford University Press
2007

Aux origines du langage
Une histoire naturelle
de la parole
Hermès, Paris: 2000

L'ordinateur génétique
Hermès, Paris: 1996

 

 

 

*   Some original theoretical results

 

*   My visit to Budongo Conservation Field Station, where I could observe chimpanzees in the wild

*   Tutorial on Simplicity Theory

 

*   Enseignement – Teaching

 

*   Organisation scientifique - Scientific organisation

 

*   My scientific favourites

 

 
Jean-Louis Dessalles