Historical contribution
What Clark contributed
His joint-action and common-ground accounts describe speakers and listeners as collaboratively establishing reference, understanding and the progress of conversation.
Why it mattered
The framework helped make feedback, coordination and shared knowledge central to the study of dialogue.
Connected topics
Where this fits in ITEM
Evidence
Sources and further reading
- Herbert H. Clark
Stanford University · Stanford Department of Psychology
- Language Use
Herbert H. Clark · Using Language, Cambridge University Press · 1996