Contributing to Discourse
Cognitive SciencePublished 1 April 1989Open access
Herbert H. Clark, Edward F. Schaefer
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A model of contributions is described as parts of collective acts performed by the participants working together and it is shown how it accounts for o variety of features of everyday conversations.
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For people to contribute to discourse, they must do more than utter the right sentence at the right time. The basic requirement is that they add to their common ground in an orderly way. To do this, we argue, they try to establish for each utterance the mutual belief that the addressees have 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 a variety of features of everyday conversations.
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