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Publication details [#23071]
Kellerman, Kathy, Scott Broetzmann, Tae-Seop Lim and Kenji Kitao. 1989. The conversation mop: Scenes in the stream of discourse. Discourse Processes 12 (1) : 27–61. 
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Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Annotation
Within the framework of Schank's theory of dynamic memory, the authors examine the nature of scenes in a conversational Memory Organization Packet (MOP), and identify a universal conversational scene, suggesting how people can talk on topics they know little about.