Routinization

• Dialogue enables routines to be set up ‘on the fly’

• Dialogue is extremely repetitive

  • 70% words in London-Lund in recurrent combinations
  • 80% words in maze example are repeats

• Dialogue Routines

  • ‘dialogue lexicon’ as a set of lexical routines
  • aligned syntactic, lexical, semantic fragments as routines (e.g., description schemes in G&A, ‘87,’94)
  • idiosyncratic to the dialogue participants

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