Establishing and Using Routines During Dialogue: Implications for Psychology and Linguistics

The study of dialogue provides a radically different conception of psycholinguistics from the traditional study of language comprehension and language production in isolation. In what ways might the study of dialogue prove informative about the relationship between language processing and adjacent areas of enquiry, such as linguistics, language acquisition, and cognitive psychology more generally? One particular topic that appears very different when considered in terms of dialogue processing is the nature of the mental lexicon.