In 2022, I published a book called Talking About. It develops a theory of communicative competence on the basis of my work on reference, confusion, implicit attitudes, and mechanistic explanation in cognitive science. Click here for the book's OUP page.

Reviews, Discussions, etc.

1. The journal Inquiry (2024) hosted a special issue on the book, which includes an introduction, three commentaries, and a response from me:
   Daniel W. Harris and Sam Berstler, Talking About Talking About
   Mark Bowker, A Serpent in the Garden?
   Jessica Keiser, Reference and Confusion
   Eliot Michaelson, What  is the Proper Function of Language?
   Elmar Unnsteinsson, Talking About: A Response to Bowker, Keiser, Michaelson

2. The journal Mind & Language (2024) published a critical commentary and my response:
   Rachel Goodman, Confusion and Explanation
   Elmar Unnsteinsson, Identity and Inference

3. Author-Meets-Critics Session, Montreal APA, January 2023. Critics: Una Stojnić, Dan Harris, Eliot Michaelson

4. Conference where two days are devoted to the book. Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia. Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. September, 2023. Commentaries from: Dan Harris, Jessica Keiser, Mark Bowker, Eric Mandelbaum, Rachel Goodman, Indrek Reiland.