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given-new contract: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

an implicit agreement that speakers mark what the listener already knows and add new information to it.

In psycholinguistics, given-new contract refers to an implicit agreement that speakers mark what the listener already knows and add new information to it. This meaning comes from Haviland (1974) in Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior.[1]

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References

Haviland, S. E., & Clark, H. H. (1974). What's new? Acquiring New information as a process in comprehension. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 13(5), 512-521. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5371(74)80003-4

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