When people are engaged in social interaction, they can repeat aspects of each other's
communicative behavior, such as words or gestures. This kind of behavioral alignment has …

The meaning of success in conversation depends on people's goals. Often, individuals
pursue multiple goals simultaneously, such as establishing shared understanding, making a …

Social interaction is both ubiquitous and central to understanding human behavior. Such
interactions depend, we argue, on shared intentionality: the parties must form a common …

Conversational repair is the process people use to detect and resolve problems of speaking,
hearing, and understanding. Through repair, participants in social interaction display how …

Corpus analyses have shown that turn-taking in conversation is much faster than laboratory
studies of speech planning would predict. To explain fast turn-taking, Levinson and Torreira …

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 …

In this article, I examine how repairs in adult-child conversations guide children's acquisition
of language. Children make unprompted self-repairs to their utterances. They also respond …

Referential ambiguities arise in dialogue when a referring expression does not uniquely
identify the intended referent for the addressee. Addressees usually detect such ambiguities …

Feedback such as backchannels and clarification requests often occurs subsententially,
demonstrating the incremental nature of grounding in dialogue. However, although such …

Establishing and maintaining mutual understanding in everyday conversations is crucial. To
do so, people employ a variety of conversational devices, such as backchannels, repair, and …