Abstract
In the previous chapter we discussed how communicative acts and cognitive activities are embedded in situations. Summarizing is no less situationally determined than other communication processes, such as producing a TV film, writing a research report, or cross-examining a witness in court. It contrasts with other communication tasks simply because it produces short discourses (“summaries”) that restrict themselves to important information. Like communication in general, summarization is not bound to a particular medium, but it deals in a specific way with knowledge transported by any appropriate medium or media set; a summary may be a multimedia message.
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Endres-Niggemeyer, B. et al. (1998). Summarizing in Everyday Communication. In: Summarizing Information. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72025-3_3
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