Abstract
The chapter shifts away from the traditional emphasis on
language production and structure, to concentrate on language
understanding; shows that even the simplest acts of communication convey
complex hierarchies of intentions that any speaker must be able to infer
if he is to understand other speakers' utterances and respond to them;
thus, as the ability to assign intentions to others must be prior to
verbalisation ..., the explanation of language must ultimately be grounded
in the psychology of intelligence. (from the chapter)
coding and its limits; inference; naive optimism; cautious
optimism; sophisticated understanding.
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Maintained by Francis F. Steen, Communication Studies, University of California Los Angeles |