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Adapting a Composition to the Audience: The Development of Referential Communication Skills.
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The article was published on 1979-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 52 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Skills management & Organizational communication.read more
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Referring as a collaborative process.
TL;DR: A communication task in which pairs of people conversed about arranging complex figures is described and how the proposed model accounts for many features of the references they produced is shown.
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How We Know—and Sometimes Misjudge—What Others Know: Imputing One's Own Knowledge to Others
TL;DR: This paper reviewed evidence that people impute their own knowledge to others and that, although this serves them well in general, they often do so uncritically, with the result of erroneously assuming that other people have the same knowledge.
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Taking Perspective in Conversation: The Role of Mutual Knowledge in Comprehension
TL;DR: It is argued that people occasionally use an egocentric heuristic, which is successful in reducing ambiguity, though it could lead to a systematic error.
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Understanding by Addressees and Overhearers
TL;DR: This paper found that addressees are more accurate at arranging the figures than overhearers even when the overhearers heard every word, whereas the very process of understanding is different for addresseees and overhearers.
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References in Conversation Between Experts and Novices
Ellen A. Isaacs,Herbert H. Clark +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted where pairs of experts and novices were asked to arrange pictures of New York City landmarks by talking about them and they were able to assess each other's level of expertise almost immediately and adjust their choice of proper names, descriptions and perspectives accordingly.
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Referring as a collaborative process.
TL;DR: A communication task in which pairs of people conversed about arranging complex figures is described and how the proposed model accounts for many features of the references they produced is shown.
Journal ArticleDOI
How We Know—and Sometimes Misjudge—What Others Know: Imputing One's Own Knowledge to Others
TL;DR: This paper reviewed evidence that people impute their own knowledge to others and that, although this serves them well in general, they often do so uncritically, with the result of erroneously assuming that other people have the same knowledge.
Journal ArticleDOI
Taking Perspective in Conversation: The Role of Mutual Knowledge in Comprehension
TL;DR: It is argued that people occasionally use an egocentric heuristic, which is successful in reducing ambiguity, though it could lead to a systematic error.
Journal ArticleDOI
Understanding by Addressees and Overhearers
TL;DR: This paper found that addressees are more accurate at arranging the figures than overhearers even when the overhearers heard every word, whereas the very process of understanding is different for addresseees and overhearers.
Journal ArticleDOI
References in Conversation Between Experts and Novices
Ellen A. Isaacs,Herbert H. Clark +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted where pairs of experts and novices were asked to arrange pictures of New York City landmarks by talking about them and they were able to assess each other's level of expertise almost immediately and adjust their choice of proper names, descriptions and perspectives accordingly.
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