Re: [xmca] Shared knowledge as Common Ground

[Lucas Bietti <lucas@bietti.org>]

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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