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    "pk": 28742,
    "title": "The Computational Structure of Unintentional Meaning",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Speech-acts can have literal meaning as well as pragmaticmeaning, but these both involve consequences typically in-tended by a speaker. Speech-acts can also have unintentionalmeaning, in which what is conveyed goes above and beyondwhat was intended. Here, we present a Bayesian analysis ofhow, to a listener, the meaning of an utterance can significantlydiffer from a speaker’s intended meaning. Our model em-phasizes how comprehending the intentional and unintentionalmeaning of speech-acts requires listeners to engage in sophisti-cated model-based perspective-taking and reasoning about thehistory of the state of the world, each other’s actions, and eachother’s observations. To test our model, we have human partic-ipants make judgments about vignettes where speakers makeutterances that could be interpreted as intentional insults or un-intentional faux pas. In elucidating the mechanics of speech-acts with unintentional meanings, our account provides insightinto how communication both functions and malfunctions.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Bayesian modeling"
        },
        {
            "word": "social cognition"
        },
        {
            "word": "commonground"
        },
        {
            "word": "speech-act theory"
        },
        {
            "word": "faux pas"
        },
        {
            "word": "Theory of mind"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentations",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4064p2k0",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Mark",
            "middle_name": "K.",
            "last_name": "Ho",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Princeton University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Joanna",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Korman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The MITRE Corporation",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Thomas",
            "middle_name": "L.",
            "last_name": "Griffiths",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Princeton University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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