Nima Mussavifard
@mussavifard.bsky.social
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Linguist and cognitive scientist
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🚨 Out in Mind & Language Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations With
@gcsibra.bsky.social
, we suggest a non-Gricean mechanism for interpreting communicative media that relies on mapping symbolic arrangements onto content; we then discuss its evolutionary implications.
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Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations
We argue that intentionalist accounts of ostensive-inferential communication fail to adequately explain the role of external representations in human communication. We propose that the contents of a ...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mila.70039
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🚨 Out in Journal of Pragmatics A short thread 🧵 1/ As part of my research project to do pragmatics without appealing to "intentions", here I offer a non-Gricean account of ostensive stimuli (eye contact, exaggerated movements, etc.).
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Ostensive marking as a distinctive feature of human communication
Human communication possesses far more expressive power than any other communicative system in nature. In pragmatic theory, this flexibility is attrib…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216625003005
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🚨 Out in Journal of Pragmatics A short thread 🧵 1/ As part of my research project to do pragmatics without appealing to "intentions", here I offer a non-Gricean account of ostensive stimuli (eye contact, exaggerated movements, etc.).
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Ostensive marking as a distinctive feature of human communication
Human communication possesses far more expressive power than any other communicative system in nature. In pragmatic theory, this flexibility is attrib…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216625003005
22 days ago
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Nima Mussavifard
A short thread on what we claim 🧵 1/ Gricean theories treat communicative cognition as fundamentally a matter of attributing intentions. We argue this explains only a subset of human communication.
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A short thread on what we claim 🧵 1/ Gricean theories treat communicative cognition as fundamentally a matter of attributing intentions. We argue this explains only a subset of human communication.
add a skeleton here at some point
23 days ago
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Barbu Revencu
26 days ago
Representations of geometric shapes have syntactic structure w/
@maxencepajot.bsky.social
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@standehaene.bsky.social
is out & open-access in JEP:General
doi.org/10.1037/xge0...
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🚨 Out in Mind & Language Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations With
@gcsibra.bsky.social
, we suggest a non-Gricean mechanism for interpreting communicative media that relies on mapping symbolic arrangements onto content; we then discuss its evolutionary implications.
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Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations
We argue that intentionalist accounts of ostensive-inferential communication fail to adequately explain the role of external representations in human communication. We propose that the contents of a ...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mila.70039
27 days ago
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Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz
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New paper with
@tadegquillien.bsky.social
and Azzurra Ruggeri: "Children seek out observations that can reveal a partner's generosity". Out in
@humbehevosoc.bsky.social
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Children seek out observations that can reveal a partner’s generosity
Humans face the adaptive challenge of assessing how much other people value them. Evidence suggests that the human mind is well-equipped for this task…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513826000668?__cf_chl_tk=UV57C.6KKGsAF.MjqTXzEuPFaPX5F2sCElsVJhmeQzc-1778913377-1.0.1.1-eyhs03OcE1gzm9B0lz9rbhkqH1YBX3wKY3Dl3iY.o2M
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