Contributing to Discourse
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چکیده
ground in on orderly way. To do this, we argue, they try to establish for each utterance the mutual belief that the addressees hove understood what the speaker meant well enough for current purposes. This is accomplished by the collective actions of the current contributor and his or her partners, and these result in units of conversation called contributions. We present a model of contributions and show how it accounts for o variety of features of everyday conversations.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Cognitive Science
دوره 13 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1989