Cognitive Constraints on Communication

1. Front Matter

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2. Dialogue and Cognition

   • Teun A. Van Dijk

   Pages 1-17

3. Diplomatic Communication

   • Solomon Marcus

   Pages 19-31

4. Insight and Self-Observation: Their Role in the Analysis of the Etiology of Illness

   • Alfred H. Stanton

   Pages 33-47

5. Parental Communication Deviance and Schizophrenia: A Cognitive-Developmental Analysis

   • Louis A. Sass

   Pages 49-74

6. Contributions of the Right Cerebral Hemisphere in Perceiving Paralinguistic Cues of Emotion

   • Larry I. Benowitz, David M. Bear, Marsel-M. Mesulam, Robert Rosenthal, Eran Zaidel, Roger W. Sperry

   Pages 75-95

7. Towards a Computational Theory of Semantic Memory

   • Lucia M. Vaina

   Pages 97-113

8. Two Types of Discourse in Hölderlin’s Madness

   • Roman Jakobson, Grete Lübbe-Grothues

   Pages 115-136

9. Problems in Question Answering

   • Wendy Lehnert

   Pages 137-159

10. Looking for a Process Model of Dialogue: Speculations from the Perspective of Artificial Intelligence

    • Roger C. Schank

    Pages 161-173

11. Jokes and the Logic of the Cognitive Unconscious

    • Marvin Minsky

    Pages 175-200

12. A Logical Form Based on the Structural Descriptions of Events

    • William A. Martin

    Pages 201-228

13. Linguistic and Situational Context in a Model of Task-Oriented Dialogue

    • Gretchen P. Brown

    Pages 229-240

14. Some Ways of Representing Dialogues

    • Arnold Günther

    Pages 241-250

15. Towards a Logical Model of Dialogue

    • Anca Runcan

    Pages 251-266

16. Message Theory and the Semantics of Dialogue

    • David Harrah

    Pages 267-276

17. Rules, Utilities, and Strategies in Dialogical Games

    • Jaakko Hintikka

    Pages 277-294

18. Focus and Dialogue Games

    • Lauri Carlson

    Pages 295-333

19. Intensional Man Vs Extensional Man: A Difficult Dialogue

    • Umberto Eco

    Pages 335-350

20. Dynamic Model Selection in the Interpretation of Discourse

    • Steven Cushing

    Pages 351-361

Communication is one of the most challenging human phenomena, and the same is true of its paradigmatic verbal realization as a dialogue. Not only is communication crucial for virtually all interpersonal relations; dialogue is often seen as offering us also a paradigm for important intra-individual processes. The best known example is undoubtedly the idea of concep­ tualizing thinking as an internal dialogue, "inward dialogue carried on by the mind within itself without spoken sound", as Plato called it in the Sophist. At first, the study of communication seems to be too vaguely defmed to have much promise. It is up to us, so to speak, to decide what to say and how to say it. However, on eloser scrutiny, the process of communication is seen to be subject to various subtle constraints. They are due inter alia to the nature of the parties of the communicative act, and most importantly, to the properties of the language or other method of representation presupposed in that particuIar act of communication. It is therefore not surprising that in the study of communication as a cognitive process the critical issues revolve around the nature of the representations and the nature of the computations that create, maintain and interpret these representations. The term "repre­ sentation" as used here indicates a particular way of specifying information about a given subject.

• Plato
• discourse
• language
• semantics

• Center for Cognitive Science, M.I.T., USA

  Lucia Vaina

• Computer Science Department, Boston University, USA

  Lucia Vaina

• Department of Philosophy, Florida State University, USA

  Jaakko Hintikka

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

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