Understanding the import of laughter, has interested philosophers and literary scholars for
millennia and, more recently, psychologists, biologists, neuroscientists, and linguists …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

In this paper, we argue that embodiment can play an important role in the design and
modeling of systems developed for Human Computer Interaction. To this end, we describe a …

This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the
Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider …

In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise
account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. The account draws on the concepts …

The aim of this book is to characterize a notion of type which will cover both linguistic and
non-linguistic action and to lay the foundations for a theory of action based on a theory of …

In this study, we explore the potential of a natural language processing (NLP) approach to
support discourse analysis of in‐situ, small group learning conversations. The theoretical …

Conversational interfaces have a long history, starting in the 1960s with text-based dialog
systems for question answering and chatbots that simulated casual conversation. Speech …

Sluicing in Korean allows to unexpress clausal material, but the unexpressed, elided
material needs to be recovered in a proper way. The recovering process makes use of either …

How can people communicate successfully while kee** resource costs low in the face of
ambiguity? We present a principled theoretical analysis comparing two strategies for …