creators_name: Tirassa, Maurizio
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2004-04-07
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:31
metadata_visibility: show
title: Mental states in communication
ispublished: pub
subjects: psy-ling
subjects: ling-prag
subjects: phil-epist
full_text_status: public
keywords: Mental states; Beliefs; Intentions; Desires; Communication; Dialogue; Pragmatics; Cognitive architecture; Representations
abstract: Abstract. This paper is concerned with the mental processes involved in intentional communication. I describe an agent's cognitive architecture as the set of cognitive dynamics (i.e., sequences of mental states with contents) she may entertain. I then describe intentional communication as one such specific dynamics, arguing against the prevailing view that communication consists in playing a role in a socially shared script. The cognitive capabilities needed for such dynamics are midreading (i.e., the ability to reason upon another individual's mental states), and communicative planning (i.e., the ability to dynamically represent and act in a communicative situation).
date: 1997
date_type: published
pagerange: 103-114
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Tirassa, Maurizio  (1997) Mental states in communication.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/3554/1/1997-Communication.pdf