Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The problem -- 2. Common ground in context -- 3. Grounding and different types of common ground -- 4. Lexical markers -- 5. Lexical markers of common ground(s) -- References -- Part 1 Grounding and Common Ground -- Ok, Next One: Discourse Markers of Common Ground -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse ok and common ground -- 3. Methods -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Grounding and Common Ground: Modal Particles and their Translation Equivalents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grounding and common ground -- 3. Modal particles as lexical markers of common grounds -- 4. Corpus -- 5. English equivalents to german modal particles -- 6. Pragmatic markers and the relationship between grounding and common ground -- References -- Common Ground in Interaction: The Functions of Medial Doch in German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recent developments in common ground -- 3. Medial doch in german -- 4. Previous analyses -- 5. Towards an integrated analysis -- 6. Stressed doch -- 7. Summary -- References -- A Common Ground for Knowledge Through Knowledge of Language: A Computational Research of Consensus-Based Meaning in Scientific Papers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Formal and cognitive properties of metalanguage -- 3. Negotiating meaning and common ground -- 4. Metalinguistic exchanges as speech acts -- 5. Explicit metalinguistic operations: A lexical axis for predication -- 6. Disambiguating lexical markers in the MOP system -- 7. Studying common ground through knowledge of language -- References -- Imposing Common Ground by Using Temporal Connectives: The Pragmatics of Before and After -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic notions -- 3. Speakers' strategies and listeners' reactions in actual discourse -- 4. Before and after -- 5. Corpus investigation.

6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Part 2 Common Grounds -- The Pragmatics of Common Ground: From Common Knowledge to Shared Attention and Social Referencing -- 1. Defining common ground -- 2. Lexical markers -- References -- Reformulation and Common Grounds -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Common ground in context -- 3. Reformulation and dialogue -- 4. Reformulations in dialogue -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Whose Common Ground? A Misunderstanding Caused by Incorrect Interpretations of the Lexical Markers of Common Ground -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Latent misunderstanding and dramatic irony -- 3. Context and contextual effects -- 4. The analysis -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Common Ground, Categorization, and Decision-Making -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse, higher-order consciousness, and goal-oriented activities -- 3. Supporting structures and mechanisms -- 4. Argumentative discourse and decision-making -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.