Where does gambit collide?

In linguistics a gambit is a short routinised expression that a speaker uses to manage a conversation (to open a topic, signal agreement, buy time, or hand over the turn), such as “by the way” or “what I mean is.” Keller's 1979 paper Gambits: Conversational strategy signals named and classified these moves as signals that organise discourse rather than carry its main content. The referent is a strategic discourse marker studied in pragmatics, unrelated to a board sacrifice or a sampling assumption beyond the shared idea of an opening move.[1]

Unit

The conversational function a routinised phrase performs in organising talk

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Identified by discourse analysis of where and how the expression manages topic, turn-taking, or stance

In behavioural ecology the “gambit of the group” is the simplifying assumption that animals observed in the same group at the same time are genuinely associating with one another, so that group membership can stand in for a social tie when building animal social networks. Franks, Ruxton, and James's 2009 study Sampling animal association networks with the gambit of the group tested how well this shortcut recovers true association patterns. The referent is a methodological sampling assumption in social-network research, named by analogy to a calculated opening risk, and unrelated to a chess opening or a conversational signal.[2]

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How faithfully group co-membership recovers the underlying association network

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Evaluated by comparing networks inferred from group co-membership against known or simulated true associations