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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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Robot manzai: robot conversation as a passive–social medium

TL;DR: The developed "robot Manzai" system received higher evaluations than the Manzai shown in a video performed by humans, and it is believed that this system demonstrates the potential of robots as a passive–social medium, including television and computers.
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Knowledge in parliamentary debates

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the many dimensions of knowledge, both in terms of mental representations as well as socially shared Common Ground, and examine how these kinds of discourse influence discourse production and comprehension, in general, and of parliamentary debates in particular.
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Visualizing common ground

TL;DR: The notion of common ground for visualization systems is expanded based on the experiences with two systems developed, CoMotion is a collaborative information visualization environment and Reality Instant Messaging is a system that provides lessons from new interactive online social environments.
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Reasoning from uncertain premises: Effects of expertise and conversational context

TL;DR: This article investigated uncertainty about a premise in a deductive argument as a function of the expertise of the speaker and of the conversational context and found that the perceived likelihood of a conclusion was greater when the major or the minor premise was uttered by an expert rather than a novice.
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Changing Concepts in Activity: Descriptive and Design Studies of Consequential Learning in Conceptual Practices

TL;DR: Concepts and conceptual change have been studied extensively as phenomena of individual thinking and action, but changing circumstances of social or cultural groups using concepts are treated as external conditions.