Context in Communication: A Cognitive View

• Kaituhi matua: Marco Cruciani (auth)
• Ētahi atu kaituhi: Gabriella Airenti (auth), Alessio Plebe (auth)
• Hōputu: Tāhiko Wāhanga pukapuka
• Reo: Ingarihi
• I whakaputaina: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Rangatū: Frontiers Research Topics
• Ngā marau: Psychology; Implicatures; common ground; presuppositions; context; Cognition; pragmatics; theory of mind (ToM); Communication
• Urunga tuihono: 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...