Alignment in dialogue

Pages: 443 - 452
Published: Sep 18, 2012
Abstract
This article argues that psycholinguists need to think in a different way to understand processing in dialogue. According to this view, interlocutors do not use language to encode and decode messages, but rather as a means by which they can align their mental states, so that they come to have the same ideas about the topic under discussion. It would in principle be possible to decompose this task into discrete acts of comprehension and...
Paper Details
Title
Alignment in dialogue
Published Date
Sep 18, 2012
Pages
443 - 452
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