Joint epistemic engineering: The neglected process of context construction in human communication
This contribution argues that a common language and its statistics do not explain how people overcome fundamental communicative obstacles. We introduce joint epistemic engineering, a neurosemiotic account of how asymmetric interlocutors can communicate effectively despite using ambiguous signals that are referentially contingent on the current communicative circumstances. The basic insight is that a communicative signal contains a multiplicity of functions and that interlocutors use those multi-layered signals to simultaneously coordinate a space of possible interpretations, declare a communicative intent, and to reduce uncertainty over the identity of a referent.
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Vol 27
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pp. 2352-2368
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Vol 23
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2006 ◽
Vol 1
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pp. 103-110
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