RT journal article T1 Will it ever be possible for machines to talk clandestinely? Introducing the non-cooperative principle A1 López Muñoz, Juan Manuel A2 Filología Francesa e Inglesa K1 Discourse K1 machines K1 secrets K1 communication K1 pragmatics AB This article tries to contribute, from semantic, pragmatic and discursive theoretical questions, to the understanding of the present or future possibility that machines communicate with each other behindour back. For this, the forms of the opacity of natural language are presented first, in order to distinguish between implications, silences, secrets and lies. After this, the different types of secrets that could be shared by machines are explained, for which it is necessary to introduce new concepts such as the robotic Non-knowledge and the Non-Cooperative Principle, SN 2576-4470 YR 2020 FD 2020 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29888 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29888 LA eng DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz RD 09-nov-2026