Ostension

• The notion of ostension in Relevance Theory and in Natural Pedagogy Ostension is a notion of the Relevance Theory of Sperber and Wilson
• Ostension is the behaviour when the communicator makes manifest his/her intention to make something manifest, i.e., perceptible or inferable, to the listener
• [Ostensive Information](Ostensive Information.md)
• Humans try to obtain from every item of information as great a contextual effect as possible for as small a processing effort as possible.
• Children tend to give more credit to information derived from ostensive communication than to information obtained via direct experience