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Summarizing Information

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Summarization is a situationally and communicatively bound cognitive task. In the following, we prepare the discussion of situations where summarization takes place, starting with the communication situation. We proceed from a classic, simple configuration, in which only two communicators appear in a given context. They communicate for the most part, but not exclusively, through language.

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Endres-Niggemeyer, B. et al. (1998). Communication and Cognition. In: Summarizing Information. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72025-3_2

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