Man‐Machine Dialogue Fields
Frédéric Landragin · 2013
The term ‘dialogue’︁ refers to the different types of interaction between two people and characterizes a certain use of language. Clark presents six proposals covering the use of language: it has a social goal; it is a joint action; it involves the meaning desired by the speaker and interpreted by the hearer; it often involves more than one activity; its study is both a cognitive and a social science. These proposals allow us to start identifying the fields involved in dialogue studies: not only linguistics and pragmatics, of course, but also social sciences and cognitive sciences. This chapter discusses these aspects, with a goal of finding application possibilities of man-machine dialogue (MMD) for these studies. It summarizes the cognitive aspects, linguistic aspects and computer science aspects concerned with the design of a dialogue system. Controlled Vocabulary Terms computer science; linguistics; man-machine systems