Experimental Semiotics: A Systematic Categorization of Experimental Studies on the Bootstrapping of Communication Systems

Author:

Delliponti Angelo,Raia Renato,Sanguedolce Giulia,Gutowski Adam,Pleyer Michael,Sibierska Marta,Placiński Marek,Żywiczyński Przemysław,Wacewicz Sławomir

Abstract

AbstractExperimental Semiotics (ES) is the study of novel forms of communication that communicators develop in laboratory tasks whose designs prevent them from using language. Thus, ES relates to pragmatics in a “pure,” radical sense, capturing the process of creating the relation between signs and their interpreters as biological, psychological, and social agents. Since such a creation of meaning-making from scratch is of central importance to language evolution research, ES has become the most prolific experimental approach in this field of research. In our paper, we report the results of a study on the scope of recent ES and evaluate the ways in which it is relevant to the study of language origins. We coded for multiple levels across 13 dimensions related to the properties of the emergent communication systems or properties of the study designs, such as type of goal (coordination versus referential), modality of communication, absence or presence of turn-taking, or the presence of vertical vs. horizontal transmission. We discuss our findings and our classification, focusing on the advantages and limitations of those trends in ES, and in particular their ecological validity in the context of bootstrapping communication and the evolution of language.

Funder

Polish National Science Centre

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Social Sciences (miscellaneous),Language and Linguistics,Communication

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