Re: [xmca] Shared knowledge as Common Ground

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Sure sounds interesting, Larry. Thanks.
mike

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:32 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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