Conversational coherence is a coöperative enterprise in which speaker and hearer jointly
negotiate (a) a focus of attention-a referent-and (b) a response which further selects what …

A prototypical place where sentences emerge in the natural world is within utterances in
conversation. 1 This paper will focus on how the accomplishment of coherence in discourse …

Successful participation in a spoken discourse places stringent demands on both the
speaker and the listener. The speaker must produce utterances that cohere with what has …

The goal of this book is to examine some of the resources that speakers employ when
building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion …

When two people talk, they focus their attention on only a small portion of what each of them
knows or believes. Both what is said and how it is interpreted depend on a shared …

. Introduction... the sequence you actually hear or see is like the tip of an iceberg–a tiny
amount of matter and energy into which an enormous amount of information has been …

The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon
rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence …

We claim that various aspects of language exist, not only to convey information or to express
social relations, but also to help us create models of each other's presumed knowledge …

Conversation is different from other sorts of discourse. Perhaps because we all engage in it
so often, it seems simple: People who speak the same language send and receive a series …

Until very recently, coherence (unlike cohesion) was widely held to be a 'rather mystical
notion'. However, taking account of new trends representing a considerable shift in …