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Nima Mussavifard

@mussavifard.bsky.social
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Linguist and cognitive scientist

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Nima Mussavifard @mussavifard.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
🚨 Out in Mind & Language Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations With @gcsibra.bsky.social, we suggest a non-Gricean mechanism for interpreting communicative media that relies on mapping symbolic arrangements onto content; we then discuss its evolutionary implications.
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Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations
We argue that intentionalist accounts of ostensive-inferential communication fail to adequately explain the role of external representations in human communication. We propose that the contents of a ...
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Nima Mussavifard @mussavifard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🚨 Out in Journal of Pragmatics A short thread 🧵 1/ As part of my research project to do pragmatics without appealing to "intentions", here I offer a non-Gricean account of ostensive stimuli (eye contact, exaggerated movements, etc.).
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Ostensive marking as a distinctive feature of human communication
Human communication possesses far more expressive power than any other communicative system in nature. In pragmatic theory, this flexibility is attrib…
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Nima Mussavifard @mussavifard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🚨 Out in Journal of Pragmatics A short thread 🧵 1/ As part of my research project to do pragmatics without appealing to "intentions", here I offer a non-Gricean account of ostensive stimuli (eye contact, exaggerated movements, etc.).
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Ostensive marking as a distinctive feature of human communication
Human communication possesses far more expressive power than any other communicative system in nature. In pragmatic theory, this flexibility is attrib…
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Nima Mussavifard @mussavifard.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A short thread on what we claim 🧵 1/ Gricean theories treat communicative cognition as fundamentally a matter of attributing intentions. We argue this explains only a subset of human communication.
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Nima Mussavifard @mussavifard.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A short thread on what we claim 🧵 1/ Gricean theories treat communicative cognition as fundamentally a matter of attributing intentions. We argue this explains only a subset of human communication.
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Barbu Revencu @barbu-revencu.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Representations of geometric shapes have syntactic structure w/ @maxencepajot.bsky.social and @standehaene.bsky.social is out & open-access in JEP:General doi.org/10.1037/xge0.... For an overview, see thread below!
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Nima Mussavifard @mussavifard.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
🚨 Out in Mind & Language Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations With @gcsibra.bsky.social, we suggest a non-Gricean mechanism for interpreting communicative media that relies on mapping symbolic arrangements onto content; we then discuss its evolutionary implications.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations
We argue that intentionalist accounts of ostensive-inferential communication fail to adequately explain the role of external representations in human communication. We propose that the contents of a ...
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Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz @laurasn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
New paper with @tadegquillien.bsky.social and Azzurra Ruggeri: "Children seek out observations that can reveal a partner's generosity". Out in @humbehevosoc.bsky.social EHB: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵
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Children seek out observations that can reveal a partner’s generosity
Humans face the adaptive challenge of assessing how much other people value them. Evidence suggests that the human mind is well-equipped for this task…
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