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The expectations that the officials and representatives hold in relation to the situation and each other strongly influence the discourse strategies they use and their willingness to work toward common communicative ground. Their expectations are formulated on the knowledge they have of each other and the situation based on their prior interactions or their knowledge of others' prior interactions. I move beyond my original hypothesis in attributing more agency to the participants than the hypothesis entails. In the speech events that I examine it is entirely possible that the participants are aware of the differences in their discourse strategies and persist despite this recognition and the miscommunication that ensues. Differences in discourse strategies, therefore, go beyond simple linguistic interference. 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Their expectations are formulated on the knowledge they have of each other and the situation based on their prior interactions or their knowledge of others' prior interactions. I move beyond my original hypothesis in attributing more agency to the participants than the hypothesis entails. In the speech events that I examine it is entirely possible that the participants are aware of the differences in their discourse strategies and persist despite this recognition and the miscommunication that ensues. Differences in discourse strategies, therefore, go beyond simple linguistic interference. 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