conversational scoreboard

noun

in linguistics and philosophy of language, the conversational scoreboard is a tuple which represents the discourse context at a given point in a conversation. The scoreboard is updated by each speech act performed by one of the interlocutors.

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Meanings

nounconversational scoreboard (countable and uncountable, plural conversational scoreboards)

plural conversational scoreboards

  1. countableuncountabledebatein linguistics and philosophy of language, the conversational scoreboard is a tuple which represents the discourse context at a given point in a conversation. The scoreboard is updated by each speech act performed by one of the interlocutors.
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