John R. Searle’s scientific contributions

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November 1978

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John R. Searle

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... Communication is therefore a "noisy channel" (Shannon, 1949) with a risk of misfire. Language can be vague and ambiguous (Piantadosi et al., 2012); referents (she; the circle) can be mistaken (Frank & Goodman, 2012); and utterances are enriched by many forms of pragmatic inference and knowledge of the world (Fillmore, 1976;Schank & Abelson, 1977;Searle, 1978;Grice, 1989;Levinson, 2000), all of which risk misalignment between speaker and hearer. As a result, communication entails the potential for miscommunication (Keysar & Henly, 2002;Keysar, 2007;Kecskes, 2010;Mustajoki, 2012). ...

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Moderate versus extreme interpretations of political slogans
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