Context in Communication: A Cognitive View

• Main Author: Marco Cruciani (auth)
• Other Authors: Gabriella Airenti (auth), Alessio Plebe (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; Implicatures; common ground; presuppositions; context; Cognition; pragmatics; theory of mind (ToM); Communication
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Context is what contributes to interpret a communicative act beyond the spoken words. It provides information essential to clarify the intentions of a speaker, and thus to identify the actual meaning of an utterance. A large amount of research in Pragmatics has shown how wide-ranging and multifacete...