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Publication details [#31307]

GarroD, S. and Gwyneth Doherty. 1994. Conversation, co-ordination and convention: an empirical investigation of how groups establish linguistic conventions. Cognition 53 (3) : 181–215.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | conventionality | description | group interaction

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0010-0277 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.journals.elsevier.com/cognition

Annotation

This paper discusses the results of two experiments that exemplify the development of co-ordinated description languages in two groups of communicators, playing Garrod and Anderson's (1987) maze game, at two levels: in terms of Lewis's formal theory of conventions, and in relation to a language processing model following the "output/input co-ordination" principle proposed in Garrod and Anderson (1987).