Risk-taking and recovery in task-oriented dialogue

The Principle of Parsimony states that people usually try to complete tasks with the least effort that will produce a satisfactory solution. In task-oriented dialogue, this produces a tension between conveying information carefully to the partner and leaving it to be inferred, risking a misunderstan...

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Published in:	Journal of pragmatics Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 71 - 107
Main Authors:	Carletta, Jean, Mellish, Christopher S.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01-07-1996 Elsevier North-Holland Pub. Co
Subjects:	Descriptive studies and applied theories Linguistics Semantics and pragmatics Comprehension/Understanding;Verstehen Dialogue Interaction Corpus analysis Pragmatics
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