Grounding is the attempt to maintain a shared understanding od the information exchanged in a communication process. Is it often used with a series of concepts considered synonims: common ground, mutual knowledge, mutual beliefs, and mutual assumption.



This definition was taken from H. Clark and E. Brennan 1991, although the authors refer to previous studies> Clark & Carlson, 1982; Clark and Marshall, 1981; Lewis, 1969; Schelling, 1960.



Grounding is therefore the process by which common ground gets updated during the communication process.



This definition was taken from H. Clark and E. Brennan 1991, although the authors refer to previous studies> Clark & Schafer, 1987, 1989, Clark & Wilkes-Gibbs, 1986; Isaacs & Clark, 1987.