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Kayser, Hermann. 1989. Some aspects of language understanding, language production, and intercomprehension in verbal interaction. In Heydrich, Wolfgang, Fritz Neubauer, Janos S. Petöfi and Emel Sözer, eds. Connexity and coherence: Analysis of text and discourse. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 342–365.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

computational linguistics | conversational analysis | mutual understanding

Annotation

K. examines the compatability of the computational linguistics and the conversational analysis approach to the study of the processes of understanding and production of verbal interaction, and proposes the notion of `intercomprehension', which refers tothe (abstract) state of well-balanced mutual understanding between interlocutors.