Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Pp. This volume collects a series of articles related to aspects of interpersonal communication seen from social and cognitive angles. It was planned to solicit contributions discussing experiments on language use and understanding with the aim of illustrating the strength of experimental research on human communication. The book is divided into four sections. Consequently the topic is approached from diverse perspectives, such as psychology, sociolinguistics, and language philosophy.
Conversational analysts propose a collaborative theory of communication.
Finally, some contributors assume that communicators tailor speech to their addressees. The author assumes that any individual speech event contains a hierarchy of intentions. Each level has a different relationship to consciousness. Consider, for example, the sign New Grass in a garden. The intention is clearly that of getting people not to step on it, thus allowing the new grass to grow.