+ Joint Understanding

-- KerstinFischer - 13 May 2003

There are particular ways by means of which speakers signal to each other how they understand what their communication partner is saying and thus create a joint understanding. These procedures are on the one hand connected to non-verbal feedback, on the other to subtle procedures that have been named `the next-turn-proof-procedure' by Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson 1974. These means are very restricted in chat, and it has to be seen which procedures internet users take in order to achieve joint understanding.

This topic will be prepared and presented by Saskia and Layne.