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Interpersonal responsibilities and communicative intentions

Carassa, Antonella ; Colombetti, Marco

In: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2014, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 145-159

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Collective decision-making in rehabilitation teams : practices of talking work

Carassa, Antonella ; Piccini, Chiara

In: Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée, 2010, no. t.2, p. 147-163

Nell'articolo vengono comparate le pratiche discorsive di due gruppi di lavoro all'interno della medesima istituzione (un servizio socio-psichiatrico) in rapporto all'attività di formulazione dei problemi che avviene durante le riunioni. Dal punto di vista metodologico lo studio combina una indagine etnografica con un'analisi qualitativa di otto riunioni che sono state registrate e trascritte;...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Joint meaning

Carassa, Antonella ; Colombetti, Marco

In: Journal of pragmatics, 2009, vol. 41, no. 9, p. 1837-1854

In this paper we want to reconcile two apparently conflicting intuitions: the first is that what a speaker means is just a function of his or her communicative intentions, independently of what the hearer understands, and even of the actual existence of a hearer; the second is that when communication is carried out successfully, the resulting meaning is, in some important sense, jointly construed...

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Situated communicative acts : a deontic approach

Carassa, Antonella ; Colombetti, Marco

In: Proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the cognitive science society, 2005, vol. XXVII, p. 384-389

We delineate a theory of communicative acts as situated actions, through which agents co-construct the current situation by creating or otherwise manipulating deontic affordances. We rely on Gilbert’s theory of plural subjects to introduce the concept of joint meaning as a type of joint commitment. We then show that our approach allows for an innovative treatment of indirect speech.