4 July 2003, CSCA Lecture, Prof. Keith Stenning

An interpretative approach to understanding human communication contrasts, at least in emphasis, with the generative perspective adopted in Chomsky's classical arguments for the creativity of human language. This talk illustrates the interpretative perspective through recent work on communication and reasoning, and then draws out the consequences of this shift in emphasis for work on the evolution of cognition.

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