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• Common ground How speakers and writers estimate what their partner already knows, why they misjudge it, and how an AI agent's messages miss what the user currently holds in mind; the dispute is whether speakers model partners or default to their own view.
• Cross-team coordination How teams on one large project coordinate decisions that span teams while they are still discovering problems, and the dispute over whether more coordination helps or hurts.
• Eliciting self-knowledge Interview methods that elicit how a person reads, decides and judges, and the dispute over how far self-report can be trusted.
• Manager–employee relationships What shapes the working relationship between a manager and an individual contributor, and what the employee can do about it: leader-member exchange, upward influence, feedback seeking, voice and trust; the main dispute is how much is the employee's to change.
• Neurodivergence and communication Which conditions DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 class as neurodevelopmental and who else is called neurodivergent, plus the thin evidence on adapting text, explanation and questions, and the dispute over the double empathy problem.