http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2005/04/04/conversational-alignment/ Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:24:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2005/04/04/conversational-alignment/comment-page-1/#comment-31055 Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || More on language alignment || April || 2005 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:09:06 +0000 /?p=234#comment-31055 [...] I’d been meaning to follow up on last week’s post on conversational alignment but hadn’t gotten around to it. As I admitted in the livejournal comments on that post, I may have over reached in saying that reality coefficients had to be aligned to have a good conversation, because, as Dan pointed out, we can have good conversations with people with whom we disagree. I think the reality coefficient alignment is still relevant, because if the members of a conversation don’t agree that something is worth discussing, there won’t be a conversation, but it distracted from my point about language. [...] [...] I’d been meaning to follow up on last week’s post on conversational alignment but hadn’t gotten around to it. As I admitted in the livejournal comments on that post, I may have over reached in saying that reality coefficients had to be aligned to have a good conversation, because, as Dan pointed out, we can have good conversations with people with whom we disagree. I think the reality coefficient alignment is still relevant, because if the members of a conversation don’t agree that something is worth discussing, there won’t be a conversation, but it distracted from my point about language. [...]

]]> http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2005/04/04/conversational-alignment/comment-page-1/#comment-3144 Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || The Art of Conversation || July || 2006 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:11:30 +0000 /?p=234#comment-3144 [...] Conversation is a topic near and dear to my heart. Besides the post listed above, I have posts about the recipe for a good conversation, a late-night conversation with a friend, a surprisingly stimulating conversation at a party, thoughts on conversational alignment, and thoughts on the connections necessary for conversation. And those are only the posts I can remember off the top of my head. I would obviously love to understand better what leads to a good conversation. And looking back over those posts, I think perhaps the concept of flow is a good place to start. [...] [...] Conversation is a topic near and dear to my heart. Besides the post listed above, I have posts about the recipe for a good conversation, a late-night conversation with a friend, a surprisingly stimulating conversation at a party, thoughts on conversational alignment, and thoughts on the connections necessary for conversation. And those are only the posts I can remember off the top of my head. I would obviously love to understand better what leads to a good conversation. And looking back over those posts, I think perhaps the concept of flow is a good place to start. [...]

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