Alignment in Communication

1. Introduction: Why a new theory of communication? (by Wachsmuth, Ipke); 2. Methodological paradigms in interaction research (by Ruiter, Jan de); 3. A multidimensional activity based approach to communication (by Allwood, Jens); 4. On making syntax dynamic: The challenge of compound utterances and the architecture of the grammar (by Gregoromichelaki, Eleni); 5. Automatic and strategic alignment of co-verbal gestures in dialogue (by Kopp, Stefan); 6. Interaction phonology - A temporal co-ordination component enabling representational alignment within a model of communication (by Wagner, Petra); 7. Communication as moving target tracking: Dynamic Bayesian inference with an action-perception-learning cycle (by Zhang, Byoung-Tak); 8. Language variation and mutual adaptation in interactive communication: Putting together psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives (by Vorwerg, Constanze); 9. "The hand is no banana!" On communicating natural kind terms to a robot (by Peltason, Julia); 10. Interactive alignment and prediction in dialogue (by Garrod, Simon); 11. What is the link between emotional and communicative alignment in interaction? (by Jaecks, Petra); 12. Index; 13. Contributors