For instance, Lewis isolates a self-perpetuating communicative mechanism that systematically associates sentences with propositional contents.
Although Lewis does not explicitly build speaker-meaning into his analysis of the "actual language" relation, a broadly Gricean communicative mechanism informs his discussion.
However, as Martin Davies observes (2003), no one seems to have worked out this supplementary strategy in any detail, and it is not obvious how important a role the resulting account would assign to convention, let alone the Gricean communicative mechanism.
Zapruder: I think a misconception some people can have about poets is that they are mainly interested in "language" as pure material, as something outside of its function as a communicative mechanism.
Eukaryotic cells have an entire panoply of communicative and cooperative mechanisms [8, 11].
To test different cognitive mechanisms that underpin communicative abilities in sending and receiving signals, further studies on nonalarm-calling species may investigate their abilities regarding, for example, heterospecific alarm call recognition, audience effects or predator specificity of behavioural responses.
Patient physician communication was correlated with communicative HL (Table 2).
This commonality between the contingency detection mechanisms for self- and communicative-other recognition may explain the developmental co-emergence of mirrored self-recognition and empathic behavior in infants (Bischof-Köhler 1988; Zahn-Waxler et al. 1992).
Yet, the neural mechanisms behind the comprehension of the communicative functions of linguistic utterances, the so-called speech acts (Searle 1969; Austin 1975), remain largely unknown.
Its communicative status is at a sufficient level of ambiguity that natural mechanisms for sustaining cells are licensed as part of its repertoire.
