Receivers' expectations for abstract versus concrete construal: Conversational relevance as a determinant of construal level

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 155-167

  Clark, Anna E ^a   Semin, Gün R ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Construal level; Conversational relevance; Linguistic abstraction; Shared knowledge; Socially situated cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 42949083189     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: 15526526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X07313645     Document Type: Article

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