Motor Simulation and Ostensive-Inferential Communication

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Avant Pub Date : 2022-07-24 DOI:10.26913/ava202204
Angelo D. Delliponti
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Abstract

The ostensive-inferential model is a model of communication, an alternative to the code model of communication, based on pragmatic competence: it explains human communication in terms of expression and recognition of informative and communicative intentions, founding comprehension on the distinction between literal meaning and the speaker’s meaning. Through informative intentions we try to make evident the content of a message to a receiver, or to make evident what we want to communicate to him/her: communicative intentions are used to make evident the very fact that we intend to communicate. One hypothesis is that ostensive-inferential communication is what makes human language possible. Since an extensive literature has highlighted the role of the Theory of Mind in ostensive-inferential communication, this hypothesis fits with the idea that a mechanism for mentalizing underlies human communication. The aim of the present paper is to stress the role of lower-level mechanisms, specifically of motor simulation, in the recognition of informative and communicative intentions, in order to outline an embodied account of ostensive communication. Specifically, the hypothesis is that this process is involved in language acquisition during development, and that it plays a role in the associative learning process involved in language acquisition during childhood. To this aim, in future research it may be useful to test the involvement of motor simulation (specifically, phono-articulatory and semantic) in the recognition of informative and communicative intentions in toddlers. Since some models of language evolution focus on the role of motor simulation, a supplementary goal is to deepen its role in the biological evolution of language, focusing on the specific link between motor simulation and intentions in the framework of ostensive-inferential model.
运动模拟与明示-推理交流
明示-推理模式是一种基于语用能力的交际模式,是语码模式的另一种选择。它从表达和识别信息意图和交际意图的角度来解释人类的交际,在区分字面意义和说话人的意思的基础上建立理解。通过信息意图,我们试图向接收者明确信息的内容,或者明确我们想要传达给他/她的内容:交际意图是用来明确我们想要传达的事实。一种假设是,明示-推理交流使人类语言成为可能。由于大量文献强调了心理理论在明示-推理交际中的作用,这一假设与心理化机制是人类交际的基础这一观点相吻合。本文的目的是强调低层次机制的作用,特别是运动模拟,在信息和交际意图的识别中,以概述明示交际的具体说明。具体来说,该假说认为这一过程参与了发育时期的语言习得,并在儿童时期的语言习得的联想学习过程中发挥了作用。为了达到这个目的,在未来的研究中,测试运动模拟(特别是语音-发音和语义)在幼儿信息和交际意图识别中的参与可能是有用的。由于一些语言进化模型关注的是运动模拟的作用,因此我们的补充目标是深化运动模拟在语言生物进化中的作用,在明示-推理模型的框架下关注运动模拟与意图之间的具体联系。
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