Abstract
This chapter views the interactional instinct as related to a constellation of conceptualizations that see language, language evolution, language acquisition, and language use from an interactive socioaffective perspective (e.g., the pedagogical stance/natural pedagogy, willingness to communicate). In this chapter, we examine the interactional instinct in relation to six other perspectives: the social instinct, the interactional engine, the cultural intelligence hypothesis, the interaction hypothesis, relational models, and the perspective of language as shaped by the brain. We see these various perspectives as correlated variations on language acquisition and use, which capture different facets of these phenomena.
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