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- Understanding Dialogue
- Understanding Dialogue
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Glossary
- Preface to Understanding Dialogue: Language Use and Social Interaction (Pickering & Garrod)
- 1 The Challenge of Dialogue
- Part I The Shared Workspace Framework
- 2 A Systems Analysis of Joint Activity
- 3 Executing, Understanding and Controlling Joint Activity
- 4 Dialogue as a Joint Activity
- 5 Producing, Controlling and Understanding Dialogue
- Part II Alignment during Dialogue
- Part III Using the Shared Workspace Efficiently
- Part IV Extending the Shared Workspace Framework
- References
- Index
2 - A Systems Analysis of Joint Activity
from Part I - The Shared Workspace Framework
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2021
- Understanding Dialogue
- Understanding Dialogue
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Glossary
- Preface to Understanding Dialogue: Language Use and Social Interaction (Pickering & Garrod)
- 1 The Challenge of Dialogue
- Part I The Shared Workspace Framework
- 2 A Systems Analysis of Joint Activity
- 3 Executing, Understanding and Controlling Joint Activity
- 4 Dialogue as a Joint Activity
- 5 Producing, Controlling and Understanding Dialogue
- Part II Alignment during Dialogue
- Part III Using the Shared Workspace Efficiently
- Part IV Extending the Shared Workspace Framework
- References
- Index
Summary
The chapter discusses cooperative joint activities such as a man and woman jointly constructing a piece of flat-pack furniture. It describes the shared workspace framework for how pairs of individuals can jointly execute such activities.The framework assumes a limited capacity workspace reflecting what the actors jointly attend to at any moment. For cooperative joint activities in general the workspace contains meaningful entities and behaviours that offer joint affordances to the interactants.The combination of the individuals and the shared workspace captures non-monadic aspects of cognition such as alignment and synchrony.
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- Understanding DialogueLanguage Use and Social Interaction, pp. 11 - 43Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021