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Publication details [#46506]

Davies, Bethan L. 2007. Principles we talk by: Testing dialogue principles in task-oriented dialogues. Pragmatics 17 (2) : 203–230.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialogue | principle of economy | task-dependency of processing | testing

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper examines the explanatory power of Clark's Collaborative Theory and Shadbolt's Principle of Parsimony when applied to real language task-oriented dialogues. The Principle of Parsimony appears to get the strongest support.