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“Powerful Stuff” — Discourse Processing: Social and Cognitive Aspects of Content Development in Conversation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Richard Hirsch
Richard Hirsch
Affiliation:
Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Linköping, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden.
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Abstract

In this article it is demonstrated how verbal and non-verbal expressions, i.e. speech and gestures, interact to convey social and cognitive information in an excerpt taken from a conversational discussion. The theoretical framework for the article is that of information processing. Within this framework, verbal and non-verbal expressions in the conversation are characterized as discourse operations which develop and refine information in a generative search in analogy with an AI production system. The discourse operations function as underspecified instructions that in interaction with given information states generate new information states in search of a desired information state.

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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , June 1992 , pp. 65 - 84
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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