Conversation, Co-ordination and Convention: An Empirical Investigation of How Groups Establish Linguistic Conventions.

Garrod, Simon; Doherty, Gwyneth

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ERIC Number: EJ503641

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Publication Date: 1994

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Conversation, Co-ordination and Convention: An Empirical Investigation of How Groups Establish Linguistic Conventions.

Garrod, Simon; Doherty, Gwyneth

Cognition, v53 n3 p181-215 Dec 1994

Examines the influence of conversational interaction on language change. Described two experiments that contrast language coordination between speakers who interacted with the same partner and speakers who interacted with different partners in a maze game context. Suggests that the experiments illustrate how a community affects language change as a consequence of its overlapping conversational interactions. (AA)

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Group Discussion, Interpersonal Communication, Language Attitudes, Language Processing, Linguistic Competence, Oral Language, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Speech Communication, Speech Skills

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom

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