Grounding in communication

Grounding in communication (or common ground) is a concept that has been proposed by Herbert H. Clark and Susan E. Brennan (Clark & Brennan 1991) and that refers to the "mutual knowledge, mutual beliefs, and mutual assumptions" that is essential for communication between two people. The concept is also common in philosophy of language.

References

Clark, Herbert H.; Brennan, Susan E. (1991), "Grounding in communication", in Resnick, L. B.; Levine, J. M.; Teasley, J. S. D., Perspectives on socially shared cognition, American Psychological Association, ISBN 1557983763, http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/sbrennan-/papers/clarkbrennan.pdf 

Stalnaker, R. (2002): Common Ground. In: Linguistics and Philosophy, 25, S. 701-721.

See also

• Cognition
• Communication
• Common ground (communication technique)