ABSTRACT
Humans are communicative beings. We communicate in many different ways, for many different purposes, and with many different partners. One of the main things we do is talk. We talk to convey information, of course, but also to express ourselves and to make an impact on the world. We talk to other humans, who we think will hear, understand, respond, and behave in some particular way because they are intelligent agents like we are. And we talk-to pets or machines or the wind —because that is what we do.
