Brennan & Clark (1996)

Conceptual pacts and lexical choice in conversation.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22(6), 1482-1493

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Brennan, S. E., & Clark, H. H. (1996). Conceptual pacts and lexical choice in conversation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22(6), 1482-1493. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.22.6.1482

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Partner Model Representational Structures

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When two people refer repeatedly to the same thing, they settle on a shared way of describing it, a conceptual pact, that belongs to that particular partnership and is reused in later references even when a simpler term would do