On Laughter and Forgetting and Reconversing: A neurologically-inspired model of conversational context

We argue that phenomena from both dement-
ive and neurotypical individuals motivate the
need for a synthesis between existing formal
semantic theories of dialogue context and the-
ories of memory and emotion. We sketch
here such a synthesis: we embed certain very
transient aspects of dialogical semantic states
as components of a Multicomponent Work-
ing Memory (Baddeley, 2012) style working
memory and we also sketch how to embed
dialogues globally within Long Term Memory.
We exemplify how the emergent framework
can account for the conversational phenomena.