This contribution argues that a common language and its statistics do not explain how people overcome fundamental communicative obstacles. We introduce joint epistemic engineering, a neurosemiotic account of how asymmetric interlocutors can communicate effectively despite using ambiguous signals that are referentially contingent on the current

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Stolk, A., Bašnáková, J., & Toni, I. (2020, November 16). Joint epistemic engineering: The neglected process of context construction in human communication. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rwfe6 Stolk, Arjen, et al. “Joint Epistemic Engineering: The Neglected Process of Context Construction in Human Communication.” PsyArXiv, 16 Nov. 2020. Web. Stolk, Arjen, Jana Bašnáková, and Ivan Toni. 2020. “Joint Epistemic Engineering: The Neglected Process of Context Construction in Human Communication.” PsyArXiv. November 16. doi:10.31234/osf.io/rwfe6.

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