?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=A+mentalist+framework+for+linguistic+and+extralinguistic+communication&rft.creator=Bara%2C+Bruno+G.&rft.creator=Tirassa%2C+Maurizio&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.subject=Evolutionary+Psychology&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.description=We+outline+some+components+of+a+mentalist+theory+of+human+communicative+competence.+Communication+in+our+species+is+an+intentional+and+overt+type+of+social+interaction%2C+based+on+each+agent's+capability+of+entertaining+shared+mental+states+and+of+acting+so+as+to+make+certain+mental+states+shared+with+the+other.+Communicative+meaning+is+a+matter+of+ascription%3A+it+is+not+an+intrinsic+property+of+a+communicative+act%2C+but+is+instead+created+here+and+now+as+the+shared+construction+of+the+interlocutors.+We+then+discuss+how+communicative+actions+are+superficially+realized+by+our+species%2C+focusing+in+particular+on+the+difference+between+linguistic+and+extralinguistic+(that+is%2C+gestural)+means+of+expression.+Linguistic+communication+is+the+communicative+use+of+a+symbol+system%2C+whereas+extralinguistic+communication+is+the+communicative+use+of+a+set+of+symbols.+The+difference+turns+out+to+be+a+matter+of+processing+rather+than+of+intrinsic+structure.%0A&rft.publisher=Istituto+di+Psicologia+del+Consiglio+Nazionale+delle+Ricerche%2C+Roma&rft.contributor=Bagnara%2C+Sebastiano&rft.date=1999&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3560%2F1%2F1999-Meaning.pdf&rft.identifier=++Bara%2C+Bruno+G.+and+Tirassa%2C+Maurizio++(1999)+A+mentalist+framework+for+linguistic+and+extralinguistic+communication.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3560%2F