Mechanisms of alignment: shared control, social cognition and metacognition.

ABSTRACT: In dialogue, speakers process a great deal of information, take and give the floor to each other, and plan and adjust their contributions on the fly. Despite the level of coordination and control that it requires, dialogue is the easiest way speakers possess to come to similar conceptualizations of the world. In this paper, we show how speakers align with each other by mutually controlling the flow of the dialogue and constantly monitoring their own and their interlocutors' way of representing information. Through examples of conversation, we introduce the notions of shared control, meta-representations of alignment and commentaries on alignment, and show how they support mutual understanding and the collaborative creation of abstract concepts. Indeed, whereas speakers can share similar re

SUBMITTER: Gandolfi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9791477 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature