Editors' Introduction: Miscommunication

Topics in Cognitive Science
Patrick G T HealeyGregory J Mills

Abstract

Miscommunication is a neglected issue in the cognitive sciences, where it has often been discounted as noise in the system. This special issue argues for the opposite view: Miscommunication is a highly structured and ubiquitous feature of human interaction that systematically underpins people's ability to create and maintain shared languages. Contributions from conversation analysis, computational linguistics, experimental psychology, and formal semantics provide evidence for these claims. They highlight the multi-modal, multi-person character of miscommunication. They demonstrate the incremental, contingent, and locally adaptive nature of the processes people use to detect and deal with miscommunication. They show how these processes can drive language change. In doing so, these contributions introduce an alternative perspective on what successful communication is, new methods for studying it, and application areas where these ideas have a particular impact. We conclude that miscommunication is not noise but essential to the productive flexibility of human communication, especially our ability to respond constructively to new people and new situations.

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May 12, 2018·Topics in Cognitive Science·Patrick G T HealeyGregory J Mills
May 12, 2018·Topics in Cognitive Science·Rose McCabe, Patrick G T Healey
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Jan 6, 2021·Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR·Jennifer M RocheLaura M Morett

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