Alignment in dialogue is the convergence of participants’ linguistic and situational representations. Speakers may reuse words and structures as they communicate. The interactive-alignment account links this process to priming and allows for repair when representations remain misaligned; mutual understanding is not guaranteed.
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Key concepts are the working vocabulary of the field: the terms that the models and tools rely on and that a decision about communication has to use precisely. Each entry defines the term and sends you to the brief or the self-guided audit where it is put to work.