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Using language: Communicative acts

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The article was published on 1996-01-01. It has received 2737 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Communicative language teaching & Comprehension approach.

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Building Connections among Loosely Coupled Groups: Hebb's Rule at Work

TL;DR: This study showed that loosely coupled groups were less likely to discover shared interests in the way that many tightly collocated groups do, such as by overhearing conversations or noticing paraphernalia, and iteratively developed a system to capture and display shared interests.
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Measuring Communication Participation to Initiate Conversation in Human–Robot Interaction

TL;DR: A participation state model for measuring communication participation is created and a clear set of guidelines for how to structure a robot’s behavior to start and maintain a conversation based on the model are provided.
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Language quality in requirements development: tracing communication in the process of information systems development

TL;DR: This research claims that requirements development depends on the ability to deal with language and communication issues in practice and reach shared understanding of requirements, and proposes the concept of language quality as a suitable means for analyzing the emergence of coherent and meaningful requirements.
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“Everybody goes down”: Metaphors, Stories, and Simulations in Conversations

TL;DR: This paper extended previous work on storytelling to reveal the metaphorical element in many stories, and to emphasize the social (bonding through shared enjoyment) as well as informative and persuasive functions of storytelling.
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Pre-requisites for large scale coordination

TL;DR: A holistic approach to control is suggested, where control in a large system is seen as an emergent product of human interaction, focusing on human–human communication from a technical, organisational, temporal, and social perspective.