Table 6 The flow of anticipation.

From: The principle of anticipation in language use

(5) a. Initial anticipation →

b. Anticipation evaluation →

c. Minimisation of counter-anticipation (or predictive errors) →

d. Maximisation of pro-anticipation→

e. Re-iteration of cycle →

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  1. Agents may start processing information about a new context and form initial anticipations based on this context (step (a)). Agents evaluate these anticipations (step (b)) and then possibly reduce counter-anticipation by aligning their anticipation with real-life events (step (c)). Subsequently, agents can use this new information from the context to form new positive expectations (i.e. pro-anticipations: step (d)). This cycle can continue via further iterations, insofar as agents process information about a given context (see definition of “(cognitive) context” in the main text; cf. step (e)).
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