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11 - Culture and Language Use

from Part IV - Extending the Shared Workspace Framework

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2021

Martin J. Pickering  and
Simon Garrod
Martin J. Pickering
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Simon Garrod
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
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Summary

The chapter discusses how cultural institutions and artefacts affect the shared workspace framework. We first consider the integration of linguistic and non-linguistic information in the shared workspace when interlocutors do such things as jointly constructing flat-pack furniture. We show how the framework is ideally suited for such integration of signs and non-signs as part of the activity. We then consider how different activity types serve to refine dialogue games. Finally we consider how cultural artefacts augment the shared workspace to support alignment. We consider the role of illustration, recording and other communication technologies.

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propsiconic signsdepictionactivity typesdialogue gamessocial normsillustrationvisual worldrecordingcommunication technology
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Understanding Dialogue
Language Use and Social Interaction
 , pp. 239 - 260
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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