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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics

Background:

  • Conversational participants can form coalitions, acting as a unified group.
  • Existing psycholinguistic and semantic models may not fully account for coalition dynamics in shared context.
  • Understanding how coalitions maintain shared context is vital for dialog research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the implications of conversational coalitions on shared context models.
  • To propose and test a mechanism for collective context accumulation in dialog.
  • To adapt existing dialog models for coalition scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • Corpus study of multiparty dialog to analyze shared context access.
  • Experimental investigation of task-oriented coalitions with weakened shared context.
  • Analysis of conversational responses and compensatory behaviors within coalitions.

Main Results:

  • Individuals with differing levels of conversational involvement can access the same shared context.
  • Evidence supports the 'grounding by proxy' hypothesis: members act on behalf of others.
  • Coalition members actively compensate when shared context appears weakened.

Conclusions:

  • Contemporary models require adaptation to include coalition dynamics and 'grounding by proxy'.
  • The concept of collective grounding acts is necessary for understanding coalition dialog.
  • A new concept of collective contexts is proposed for psycholinguistic and semantic dialog models.