Constructive Study on Dynamics of Communication: The Role of Ambiguity and Context

In this study, we investigate how dynamic features of communication are realized in simulated processes. We hypothesize that ambiguity and context play important roles for maintaining the dynamics of success and failure in communication. We propose a game model of communication by adding ambiguity and context to Steels’ Language-Game. As a result of simulation experiments of two types of the game model, it was shown that ambiguous words are disambiguated at the situation of communication by utilizing contextual information. We claim that the disaccord of interpretation arose by the ambiguity is one of the integrant parts bringing the dynamics of communication, such as superficial communicative success, failure and reestablishment of communication.