 ##  [Discourse Completion Task](/discourse-completion-task) 

  ##  [Discourse Completion Task](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/discourse-completion-task-0) 

  
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**Humanities &amp; Arts Dictionary**

 
Definition

A structured elicitation technique in pragmatics in which participants read or hear short situational prompts and produce a linguistic response (written or spoken) intended to perform a particular speech act; used to compare pragmatic strategies across speakers under controlled prompting while sacrificing some aspects of natural interaction.