ABSTRACT
Communication is situated and it is situated in the environment, in the perception the participants have of the environment, and also in the mental representations they privately retain. This work addresses the problem of explaining the interaction between state of the physical world and mental states of actors involved in a communicative exchange. We have the goal of integrating physical world representations, such as space representation, physical co-presence of the actors and physical nature of the communication channel, with a cognitive account of communicative phenomena. We introduce the concepts of scene, situation and scenery for elaborating a theory for situated communication and give an account of the interaction between mental states involved in communication and the subjective representations of the state of the world.
