Language and communication  

(With Deirdre Wilson) Mood and the analysis of non-declarative sentences (In J. Dancy, J.Moravcsik & C. Taylor (eds) (1988) Human agency: Language, duty and value. Stanford University Press, Stanford CA: 77-101.)

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

(With Deirdre Wilson) Linguistic form and relevance (In Lingua 90 (1993): 1-25).

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

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

Sperber, Dan, Francesco Cara, & Vittorio Girotto (1995). Relevance Theory explains the Selection Task. Cognition 57, 31-95

(with Deirdre Wilson) Fodor's Frame Problem and Relevance Theory (reply to Chiappe & Kukla) (In Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19:3 (1996). 530-532.)

(with Deirdre Wilson) Remarks on relevance theory and the social sciences. In Multilingua 16 (1997): 145-51.

(with Deirdre Wilson) The mapping between the mental and the public lexicon (In P. Carruthers & J. Boucher (eds) Thought and language. CUP, Cambridge, 1998, 184-200).

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

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

Naturaliser l'esprit (Dans Roger-Pol Droit et Dan Sperber, Des Idées qui viennent, Odile Jacob 1999, chapitre 1, pp. 11-24)

Voir autrement la culture (Dans Roger-Pol Droit et Dan Sperber, Des Idées qui viennent, Odile Jacob 1999, chapitre 3, pp. 91-105) 

Pour un utopisme raisonné (Dans Roger-Pol Droit et Dan Sperber, Des Idées qui viennent, Odile Jacob 1999, chapitre 5, pp. 169-187) 

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

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

(With Gloria Origgi) Evolution, communication, and the proper function of language (A discussion of Millikan in the light of pragmatics and of the psychology of mindreading, to appear in Peter Carruthers and Andrew Chamberlain eds., Evolution and the Human Mind: Language, Modularity and Social Cognition. Cambridge University Press)

(With Deirdre Wilson) Truthfulness and relevance (2001 - re-submitted)

(With Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst and Laure Carles) Truthfulness and relevance in telling the time (to appear in Mind and Language)

(With Vittorio Girotto, Markus Kemmelmeir and Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst) Inept reasoners or pragmatic virtuosos? Relevance and the deontic selection task. (To appear in Cognition) (in PDF format)

An Evolutionary perspective on testimony and argumentation. Philosophical Topics. (2001). 29. 401-413

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

The future of writing (contribution to the virtual symposium text-e, 2002)
- L'avenir de l'écriture (contribution au colloque virtuel text-e, 2002 - version française de The future of writing). Published in Text-e: Le texte à l'heure de l'Internet (Gloria Origgi & Noga Arikha eds.) Paris: Bibliothèque Publique d'Information. 177-190
- Il futuro della scrittura (contributo al convegno virtuale text-e, 2002 - Traduzione di The future of writing )

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

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

(With Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst and Laure Carles) Truthfulness and relevance in telling the time (Mind and Language, vol 17, No 5, November 2002, pp 457-466.)

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

(With Vittorio Girotto) Does the Selection task detect cheater detection? ( in Fitness, J. & Sterelny, K. (Eds.), 2003 From Mating to Mentality: Evaluating Evolutionary Psychology, Monographs in Cognitive Science, Psychology Press. (PDF file) 

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

(With Ira Noveck) Introduction. (2004) in  Noveck, I. & Sperber, D. (eds) Experimental Pragmatics, Palgrave

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

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

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

The Guru Effect.  (2005, manuscript)

(2006) 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 .

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

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