“ These methods are difficult to describe, indeed some believe they are indescribable … [Because] we are dealing here, of course, with a very subtle problem – how one person tries to find out what another person wants to know, when the latter cannot describe the need precisely … The negotiation of reference questions is one of the most complex acts of human communication. In this act, one person tries to describe for another person not something he knows, but rather something he doesn’t know
R.S. Taylor. 1968
(Source: ramirez)
