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Barr, Dale Jerome, III.

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A theory of dynamic coordination for conversational interaction.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A theory of dynamic coordination for conversational interaction./
Author:	Barr, Dale Jerome, III.
Description:	186 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Boaz Keysar.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-11B.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9951759
ISBN:	9780599554863

A theory of dynamic coordination for conversational interaction.
Barr, Dale Jerome, III.

A theory of dynamic coordination for conversational interaction. - 186 p.

Adviser: Boaz Keysar.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 1999.

A recurring Problem that language users face is establishing reference---a communicator must adequately describe a referent such that an addressee can uniquely identify it from a set of alternatives. When communicators describe a referent over repeated turns, they simplify coordination by establishing conventions. The thesis explores the question: What are the mechanisms that give rise to conventions in language production and comprehension? The standard theory assumes that people establish and use conventions on the basis of inferences they make about the intentional states of their interlocutors-specifically, about mutual knowledge. Over repeated turns, interlocutors collaboratively negotiate how referents are to be described through a process of "grounding". This process culminates in the establishment of temporary, partner-specific conventions, or "conceptual pacts". The theory predicts that interlocutors will only use a convention when, by virtue of community membership, they can infer that it is mutually known.

ISBN: 9780599554863Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

A theory of dynamic coordination for conversational interaction.
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520 $a A recurring Problem that language users face is establishing reference---a communicator must adequately describe a referent such that an addressee can uniquely identify it from a set of alternatives. When communicators describe a referent over repeated turns, they simplify coordination by establishing conventions. The thesis explores the question: What are the mechanisms that give rise to conventions in language production and comprehension? The standard theory assumes that people establish and use conventions on the basis of inferences they make about the intentional states of their interlocutors-specifically, about mutual knowledge. Over repeated turns, interlocutors collaboratively negotiate how referents are to be described through a process of "grounding". This process culminates in the establishment of temporary, partner-specific conventions, or "conceptual pacts". The theory predicts that interlocutors will only use a convention when, by virtue of community membership, they can infer that it is mutually known.
520 $a In two experiments, I present evidence that language users routinely produce and interpret conventionalized descriptions in a way that violates mutual knowledge. Participants in the experiments exhibited a phenomenon which might be called "the illusory transparency of convention"---they behaved as though the meanings of conventions would be transparent to interlocutors who were not members of the communities where the conventions were known. To explain this phenomenon, I propose an alternative theory of the evolution and use of conventions. Unlike the standard theory, the "theory of dynamic coordination" assumes that to coordinate reference, interlocutors employ a set of simple cognitive principles that exploit the inherently collaborative and multimodal nature of conversational interaction. When communicators describe referents over repeated turns, they recycle verbal plans, increase their relative use of prior over local context, and adaptively weight elements of descriptions according to communicative success. It is suggested that these principles serve to minimize the effort that language users expend in establishing reference, by simplifying the inferences that they must make when facing the real-time constraints of language processing.
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