SUCCESS {MoLE}

Determine communicative success

Description

Determine communicative success by comparing intention of speaker (proposition) and interpretation of hearer.

Usage

SUCCESS(proposition, interpretation, situation)

Arguments

proposition

Intended/speaker meaning

interpretation

Interpretation/hearer meaning

situation

Contextual situation in which communication took place.

Details

If there are no distractor events ongoing, success is determined by comparing the speaker and hearer meanings; otherwise, communication is successful if the same target event is selected.

Value

Logical: 1 for success; 0 for failure

Author(s)

Sander Lestrade

See Also

TURN

Examples

FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
(proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation))
utterance=PRODUCE(1, proposition)
(interpretation=INTERPRET(2, utterance, situation))
SUCCESS(proposition, interpretation, situation)