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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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Capturing egocentric biases in reference reuse during collaborative dialogue

TL;DR: Analyzing reference reuse during the interaction revealed that the participants were more likely to reuse the references that they had presented themselves, and those that had been accepted through verbatim repetition, on the other.
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Preschoolers' use of morphosyntactic cues to identify generic sentences: indefinite singular noun phrases, tense, and aspect.

TL;DR: Children demonstrated sensitivity to both cues, suggesting that solving the in-principle problem of identifying generics may not be beyond the reach of young children's comprehension skills.
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Perspectives on Multi-party Dialogue

TL;DR: The authors argue that the differences are related to particular characteristics which tend to be associated with either two-party or multi-party dialogues but are not inherent to them, and they show that these characteristics can account for differences between different types of twoparty and multirelobal dialogues, including effects of group size.
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Understanding in Counselling: A Preliminary Social Constructionist and Conversation Analytic Examination.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt a theoretically compatible research approach (ethnomethodology and conversation analysis) to empirically examine how understandings were purportedly constructed in counselling interviews, in how speakers make evident to each other that their shared talk is adequate for "moving forward".
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Quantitative discourse psychology

TL;DR: This paper investigated reading time, inference generation, the construction of multiple agents (i.e., narrators, characters) in literary short stories, tutorial dialogue, and dialogue patterns in two-party conversations.