Book Reviews

Intentions in Communication is the outgrowth of an interdisciplinary workshop on the role of intention in theories of communication. Attending the workshop were researchers in computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. The resulting book contains edited versions of 14 papers (13 of which were presented at the workshop), commentaries, and an introduction. The topics of these papers range from philosophical analyses of the concept of intention to algorithms for recognizing plans, from logical formalizations of speech acts to analyses of intonational contours in discourse. The idea of relating intentions to the use of language is an outgrowth of speech act theory.