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Full alignment of some but not all representations in dialogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2004

Holly P. Branigan*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, EdinburghEH8 9JZ, United Kingdomhttp://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/Staff/ra/hbranigan/publications.html

Abstract

I argue that alignment of linguistic representations and situation models in dialogue are qualitatively distinct. By virtue of the isomorphy between interlocutors' linguistic representations, interlocutors align their linguistic representations fully. However, evidence about situation models is indirect and mediated through language, with the result that alignment of situation models is only partial.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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