Re: [xmca] Shared knowledge as Common Ground

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Lucas-- I was able to grab the Herb Clark article. Concerned as it is with
joint, mediated, activity and the material/ideal nature of mediation, it has
to be close to my heart.
If others are interested, i can send a pdf.

The issue of "grounding" also comes up in wertsch's writings on the
given/new distinction, i think when he
discusses Rommetveit. Very worthwhile discussion and expansion as a topic.

I would also note that the entire issue of Discourse Studies should be
interesting people in this
discussion, from the introduction of x-lchc-ite Sandro Duranti to the
discussion around Manny Schegeloff's work (another x-lchc-ite from loooooong
ago).

Like old home week! thanks.

mike

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Lucas Bietti <lucas@bietti.org> wrote:

>
> Just a quick clarification. H.Clark's book is titled 'Using Language'.
> Interestingly, in the last years Clark and Nick Enfield have been using the
> concept of Common Ground in multimodal interactions incorporating material
> environments.
>
>
> Clark, H. (2005). Coordinating each other in a material world. Discourse
> Studies7 (4-5), 507-525.
> Enfield, N.J. (2006). Social consequences of common ground. In N.J. Enfield
> &
> S.C. Levinson (eds.), Roots of human sociality: Culture, cognition and
> interaction(pp.399-430). Oxford: Berg.
> Enfield, N.J. (2008). Common ground as a resource for social affiliation.
> In
> I.Kecskes & J.L. (eds), Intention, common ground and the egocentric
> speaker-hearer(pp.223-254). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
> Enfield,N.J.(2009). The anatomy of meaning: Speech, gesture, and composite
> utterances. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
>
>
> Hope this helps
> Lucas
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On October 21, 2010 at 10:32 PM Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I just read an interesting article on shared knowledge acquisition
> > and shared perception that develops as doctors participate in  joint
> > activity within the operating room.
> > When reading it I was thinking of Jay Lemke's article on how changing
> > media facilitate different forms of shared knowlege.
> >
> > The article is an examination of communicative activity in an operating
> room
> > where there is an attendant, a resident, and a third year medical student
> > and how they are developing shared perceptions and shared knowledge
> within
> > a particular situation.  The authors are usin a pragmatic model of
> > "reference repair" proposed by  Clark and Marshall [1981]
> >
> > Clark's model in 1981 was referring to "mutual knowledge" but in 1996 in
> a
> > book titled "Using Knowledge" he expanded the notion of mutual knowledge
> to
> > a broader category of "common ground"
> >
> > Clark's proposed model of reference repair is expressed by the formula
> > Evidence + Asumptions + Induction schema = Mutual knowledge [or common
> > ground]
> > g
> > Evidence is the ground that both speaker and hearer both understand some
> > matter in the same way.
> >
> > Assumptions are the things taken for granted when accepting these grounds
> as
> > warrants
> >
> > Inductive schema is a RECURSIVE relation where evidence and assumptions
> are
> > interrelated or linked.  Weaker bases of evidence [shared knowledge] must
> be
> > compensated by increasing levels of assumptions.
> >
> > The authors in the discussion section of there article wrote
> >
> > "We are in full accord with Clark's shift from a treatment of reference
> as a
> > simple matter of linquistic interpretation to a more situated model that
> > encpmpasses "joint actions" and "joint perceptual experiences" and we
> think
> > this this [theory] ... would help to illuminate how participants' own
> > unfolding activities contribute to the determinant sense of what IS
> SEEABLE
> > at any given moment. Furthermore, we have much to learn about the
> > interactions between different kinds of bases of shared understanding".
> >
> > Not sure if others will find the article interesting.  It is another
> > perspective on the theme of "co-ordinating perspectives"  through
> > "reflective capacity" as a "socio-relational" process.
> >
> > Larry
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