Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | This paper is a summary of a paper with the same title that appeared in the proceedings of the 27th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI2005). It is argued that the way in which the world is conceptualized for language is language dependent and the result of negotiation between language users. This is investigated in a computer experiment in which a population of artificial agents construct a shared language to talk about a world that can be conceptualized in multiple and possibly con icting ways. It is shown that the establishment of a successful communication system requires that feedback about the communicative success is propagated to the ontological level, and thus that language shapes the way we conceptualize the world for communication. |
