We address the puzzle about early belief ascription: young children fail elicited-response false-belief tasks, but they demonstrate spontaneous false-belief understanding. Based on recent converging evidence, we articulate a pragmatic framework to solve this puzzle. Young children do understand the contents of others' false belief, but they are overwhelmed when they must simultaneously make sen...

ly speaking, it seems that conflict when applied to communicative action can be reduced to two main types: 1. Making a positive claim which is incompatible with someone else ́s actions or interest. 2. Denying another person ́s positive claim. The denial can take at least the following forms: (i) Explicit denial often combined with a counterclaim (ii) Implicit denial often by satire or irony

In this paper, we set out a basic approach to the modeling of narrative in interactive virtual worlds. This approach adopts a bipartite model taken from narrative theory, in which narrative is composed of story and discourse. In our approach, story elements – plot and character – are defined in terms of plans that drive the dynamics of a virtual environment. Discourse elements – the narrative’s...

Responsible Innovation (RI) has increasingly attracted attention in academic research and business practice for UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Especially, the Economic Social Commission Asia Pacific (UNESCAP) highlights RI as a key concept to address how institutionalize organize action programs solve grand challenges. However, we know little about determinants of organizing business....

The paper considers studying the perception and assessment of media content in the Russian-language social networks, analyzing the causes that affect the perception and distribution of network content. The importance of language learning and communication in Russian-language social networks, and problems of content effectiveness is determined by the growth in the number and activity of Runet us...

Behavioral evidence and theory suggest gesture and language processing may be part of a shared cognitive system for communication. While much research demonstrates both gesture and language recruit regions along perisylvian cortex, relatively less work has tested functional segregation within these regions on an individual level. Additionally, while most work has focused on a shared semantic ne...

We present an abstract framework for verifying communicative actions for rational agent programming languages. Firstly, a multiagent verification logic based on the computational semantics is introduced; and subsequently, this multi-agent logic is embedded into a more expressive modal logic over a standard run-based semantics. We formally relate both logics, prove expressivity results, and argu...

The adoption of SharedPlans as a basis for multimodal dialogues is discussed. An extension to the model of plan augmentation for discourse is proposed so that it applies for multimodal interaction. The proposed process exploits SharedPlans and Adjacency Pairs in conjunction to account for global and local collaboration. Finally, multimedia coordination is taken into account. An example is follo...

One of the most powerful theoretical conceptions behind current research in pragmatics is the idea that a theory of linguistic communication is really only a special case of a general theory of human action. According to this view, the various linguistic subdisciplines such as phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics should be regarded as the studies of different abstract aspects of underlyi...