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This is the eleventh ERIC/ECTJ Annual Review Paper, preparation of which was supported by the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Clearinghouse on Information Resources, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. The material in this article was prepared pursuant to a contract with the National Institute of Education, U.S. Department of Education. Contractors undertaking such projects under government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their judgment in professional and technical matters. Points of view or opinions do not necessarily represent the official view or opinion of NIE.
The preparation of this paper was also supported by the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences under grant MDA903-82-C-0055 to Concordia University, Centre for System Research and Applied Epistemology.
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Pask, G. Review of conversation theory and a protologic (or protolanguage), Lp. ECTJ 32, 3–40 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02768767
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