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What makes dialogue-based explanation more successful than monologue?
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- How do dialogue acts and explanation moves interact to predict understanding success?
- How do dialogue dimensions predict explanation success across different exchanges?
- How does unilateral interpretation differ from mutual communicative uptake?
- How does linguistic coordination build shared reference between conversational partners?
- How does shared reference and grounding affect assumption detection in dialogue?
- Why do monological explanations fail to transfer understanding compared to dialogical ones?
- Why might expressed satisfaction with explanations diverge from actual cognitive clarity?
- How does the Question Under Discussion shape what content projects?
- How do organizational roles and peer interpretations shape what an explanation means?
- How should task-oriented and socially-oriented dialogue acts receive different training signals?
- Why does linguistic alignment differ from genuine interpersonal coordination?
- How do humans decide which level of clarification to request?
- What distinguishes local coherence from global coherence in dialogue?
- What role do first-person pronouns play in sustaining collaborative conversation tone?
- Why does explanation source matter more than explanation content?
- Can grammar alone repair misunderstanding without ritual correction work?
- What psychological mechanisms actually produce alignment effects in conversations?
- What role does accommodation play in making discourse coherent?
- Does inner subjective experience matter for discourse participation?
- How does the Question Under Discussion shape what counts as presupposed?
- How does the observer versus participant perspective change what we see?
- How does speaker responsibility shape whether something counts as communication?