Abstract
Linguistic communication is cognition-based, because use of language involves all sorts of psychological representations and knowledge structures stored in our brain. Being the underlying structure of cognition, memory is a psychobiological interface: universal in its biological perspective, but individualistic in its psychological perspective. Every individual tries to set up his or her own situational or mental model in communication. Use of language involves sensory register (perception and attention), working memory (memory load, meaning storage, foreground and focus), and long-term memory (linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge, shared knowledge). Some pragmatic failures are actually memory failures.
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