Psychologically Mediated Communication in Nonhuman Animals

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract The aim of Chapter 6 is to provide a selective survey of potential instances of psychologically mediated communication in both early ontogeny and among nonhuman animals, offering a specific take on some well-known cases of animal communication. Of special interest are recent discussions by primatologists, which construe certain interactions among great apes as intentional though still not Gricean. The chapter construes intentional communication as a subspecies of psychologically mediated communication. What is distinctive about it is that it involves the intentional harnessing (or coopting) of signals by individual communicators in the creative production and interpretation of communicative utterances. Owing to an increased capacity for voluntary control over the production of signals, intentional producers are able individually and flexibly to tailor their communicative behaviors to their communicative purposes, taking into account their audience’s psychological states (as they perceive them through their expressive behaviors). This places intentional psychologically intermediate communication at the intersection of intentional instrumental action and psychologically mediated communication.
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Authors Dorit Bar‐On
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Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/9780191862564.003.0006
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https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191862564.003.0006
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