The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech production-and-comprehension, allowing the speech receiver to form roughly the sa…
Coherence theory: the case of Russian
Coherence theory: the case of Russian
Coherence theory: the case of Russian
This volume contains a selection of studies from the Collaborative Research Center "Situated Artificial Communicators." The contributions focus on different aspects of human-human and human-machine interaction in situations which closely model everyday workplace demands. The int…
All adult speakers in Western cultures have life stories, argues Charlotte Linde, and the ways in which these life stories are formed and exchanged with others have a powerful effect on all of us. Life stories express our sense of self, who we are and how we got that way. Accord…
All adult speakers in Western cultures have life stories argues Charlotte Linde, and the ways in which these life stories are formed and exchanged with others have a powerful effect on all of us. Life stories express our sense of self, who we are and how we got that way. Accordi…