Carving language for social coordination: A dynamical approach

Interaction Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 103-124

  Fusaroli, Riccardo ^a   Tylén, Kristian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Affordances; Communication; Emergence; Evolution; Interaction; Language; Linguistic alignment; Social coordination; Symbolic patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859329451     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.13.1.07fus     Document Type: Review

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