Centering Theory
Centering Theory is a linguistic framework within discourse processing that models the attentional state of a dialogue or text by identifying the most salient discourse entity—the "center"—and predicting how interlocutors maintain coherence through forward-looking center selection and backward-looking center updating in subsequent utterances.
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6. Teaching To and Through Cultural Diversity
Geneva Gay · Curriculum Inquiry · 2010 · 723 citations
A centering approach to pronouns
Susan E. Brennan, Marilyn Walker Friedman, Carl Pollard · 1987 · 540 citations · Full text
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University of Pennsylvania
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University of Edinburgh
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Cairo University
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