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MIND & LANGUAGE
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 3-29Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2009.01379.x
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- AHRC [AH/E511112/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/E511112/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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What is the role of language in social interaction? What does language bring to social encounters? We argue that language can be conceived of as a tool for interacting minds, enabling especially effective and flexible forms of social coordination, perspective-taking and joint action. In a review of evidence from a broad range of disciplines, we pursue elaborations of the language-as-a-tool metaphor, exploring four ways in which language is employed in facilitation of social interaction. We argue that language dramatically extends the possibility-space for interaction, facilitates the profiling and navigation of joint attentional scenes, enables the sharing of situation models and action plans, and mediates the cultural shaping of interacting minds.
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