Language and Conversation

Straight forward statements about language and conversation.  We are making more conversations with machines these days, but still not complex ones. 

Using Language 1st Edition   by Herbert H. Clark via Amazon

Herbert Clark argues that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners, writers and readers perform their individual actions in coordination, as ensembles. In contrast to work within the cognitive sciences, which has seen language use as an individual process, and to work within the social sciences, which has seen it as a social process, the author argues strongly that language use embodies both individual and social processes. .... "