This paper considers the relation between the pragmatic abilities used to interpret communicative behaviour and more general mind-reading abilities used to interpret ordinary actions. According to the classical Fodorian view (Fodor 1983), pragmatics and mindreading are central cognitive systems which are used to attribute mental states to others on the basis of general-purpose reasoning abiliti...

2.1 Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline an approach to communication and pragmatics which under the names of ‘Activity based Communication Analysis’ or ‘Communicative Activity Analysis’ has been under development since the mid 70s (cf. Allwood 1976). To do this I start by giving a critical review of some of the main theoretical contributions in relation to which the approach has bee...

In naturally occurring discourse, much that is meant to be communicated is left out of the explicit text. The interpreter must reconstruct much of the intended meaning ; and the generator can leave out information that will be reconstructed. In this paper, we use an abductive approach to generation and interpretation to provide an account of how the generative and interpretive processes can be ...

associated with verbal and non-verbal communication. The purpose of the article is to study discursive communicative-pragmatic nature poetical images silence in English-language literary discourse. universal cultural functions this notion were analysed main approaches determined. It became clear that phenomenon Nature Silence can be actualised help other landscape field English Such must belong...

The paper presents the Constructive Dialogue Model as a new approach to formulate system goals in intelligent dialogue systems. The departure point is in general communicative principles which constrain cooperative and coherent communication. Dialogue participants are engaged in a cooperative task whereby a model of the joint purpose is constructed. Contributions are planned as reactions to the...

This paper! reports on foundational considerations for experiments into the acquisition of human-like use and understanding of negation in linguistic utterances via a developmental robotics approach. For this purpose different taxonomies of negation in early child language are analysed in order to show the large variety of communicative functions that these different types of negation have. Req...

Relationship Development Intervention® (RDI®) is a cost effective, research guided, intervention approach for remediating Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The purpose of RDI® is to develop intersubjectivity, the agreed upon core of autism’s social and communicative deficits (Baron-Cohen, 2000). Intersubjectivity encompasses joint attention, social referencing, theory of mind, social reciprocity...

A critiquing system evaluating a physician's management plan may produce a set of individual comments that, taken together, appear repetitious or incoherent. This paper presents TraumaGEN, a system for integrating sets of possibly interrelated communicative goals into one or more coherent messages. TraumaGEN takes account of the purpose of the messages, the situation in which the messages will ...

This paper reports work on the design of a natural language interface with a limited dialogue capability. It is argued that (i) The interpretation of the input is preferably represented as a structure of Discourse Object Descriptions (DODs); (ii) The DODs must be determined on the basis of different types of knowledge such as grammatical knowledge, object type deirmitions and knowledge about ex...