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- Title
Underdeterminacy without ostension: A blind spot in the prevailing models of communication.
- Authors
Bonard, Constant
- Abstract
Together, the code and inferential models of communication are often thought to range over all cases of communication. However, their prevailing versions seem unable to fully explain what I call underdeterminacy without ostension. The latter is constituted by communication where stimuli that are not (nor appear to be) produced with communicative or informative intentions nevertheless communicate information underdetermined by the relevant codes. Though the prevailing accounts of communication cannot fully explain how communication works in such cases, I suggest that some version of the inferential model can—if we allow it to extend to non‐ostensive, non‐intentional behaviors.
- Subjects
COMMUNICATION models
- Publication
Mind & Language, 2024, Vol 39, Issue 2, p142
- ISSN
0268-1064
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/mila.12481