Self-Anchoring in Conversation: Why Language Users Do Not Do What They “Should”
Cambridge University Press eBooksPublished 8 July 2002
Boaz Keysar, Dale J. Barr
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Abstract
An old story about J. Edgar Hoover illustrates the miscommunication of intentions. When Hoover noticed that the text of a memo his secretary typed had spilled into the page margins, he scribbled a note to her: "Watch the borders." The next day agents were on high alert on the border with Mexico. The question we'd like to address in this paper is this: Why did Hoover miscommunicate?
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