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Vinicius Macuch Silva; Alexandra Lorson; Michael Franke; Chris Cummins; Bodo Winter – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
This study investigates how quantifiers are used strategically to serve different argumentative goals. We report two experiments on how English speakers describe the results of school exams when being instructed to frame their descriptions either as a good or bad outcome. Experiment 1 shows that participants have clear preferences for specific…
Descriptors: English, Language Usage, Bias, Semantics
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Katherine Chia; Ashley A. Edwards; Christopher Schatschneider; Michael P. Kaschak – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
We report three experiments that assess whether structural priming in a question-answer dialogue context is affected by the use of direct requests, conventional indirect requests, and nonconventional indirect requests. In Experiments 1 and 2, experimenters made phone calls to businesses and asked either "Can you tell me (at) what time you…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Speech Communication, Language Patterns, Repetition
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Helmer, Henrike – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
To secure mutual understanding in interaction, speakers sometimes explain or negotiate expressions. Adopting a conversation analytic and interaction linguistic approach, I examine how participants explain which kinds of expressions in different sequential environments, using the format "x heißt y" ("x means y"). When speakers…
Descriptors: German, Language Patterns, Speech Communication, Interaction
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Vatanen, Anna; Endo, Tomoko; Yokomori, Daisuke – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
The human ability to anticipate upcoming behavior not only enables smooth turn transitions but also makes early responses possible, as respondents use a variety of cues that provide for early projection of the type of action that is being performed. This article examines resources for projection in interaction in three unrelated…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Finno Ugric Languages, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese
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Benjamin, Trevor; Walker, Traci – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
This article examines one of the ways in which matters of truth, appropriateness, and acceptability are raised and managed within the course of everyday conversation. Using the methodology of conversation analysis, we show that by repeating what another participant has said and doing so with a high rise-fall intonation contour, a speaker claims…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Repetition
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Moxey, Linda M.; Filik, Ruth – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Following a positively quantified statement such as, "A "few" of the children sang the chorus," a plural pronoun is likely to refer to the set of children who sang (the reference set). Negative natural language quantifiers (NLQs) such as "few" or "not many," on the other hand, are more likely to be followed…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Expectation, Inferences, Reader Response
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Schegloff, Emanuel A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Recent work on the occurrence of "uh" and "uhm" in ordinary talk-in-interaction is concerned almost exclusively with its relation to trouble in the speech production process. After touching briefly on this environment of occurrence, this conversation-analytic article focuses attention on several interactional environments in which "uh(m)" figures…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Standard Spoken Usage, Sociolinguistics, Language Patterns
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Swerts, Marc; van Wijk, Carel – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Tennis scores represent a natural language domain that offers the unique opportunity to study the effects of discourse constraints on prosody with strict control over syntactic and lexical variation. This study analyzed a set of tennis scores, such as "30-15," from live recordings of several Wimbledon and Davis Cup matches. The objective was to…
Descriptors: Racquet Sports, Natural Language Processing, Scores, Language Usage
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Tree, Jean E. Fox; Tomlinson, John M., Jr. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
A comparison across spontaneous speech collected in the 1980s and the 2000s reveals a dramatic flip between the use of "said" versus "like" as enquoting devices. The greater use of "like" is reflected in a wide variety of quotation types including reported speech, thoughts, exclamations, and sounds. There is no…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Usage, Semantics, Language Patterns
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Giora, Rachel; Fein, Ofer; Aschkenazi, Keren; Alkabets-Zlozover, Inbar – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
Three experiments show that, contrary to the current view, comprehenders do not unconditionally deactivate information marked by negation. Instead, they discard negated information when it is functionally motivated. In Experiment 1, comprehenders discarded negated concepts when cued by a topic shift to dampen recently processed information.…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Patterns, Psychological Patterns, Cues
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Pu, Ming-Ming – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
The particular forms of relative clauses (RCs) in Mandarin Chinese lead to particular cognitive, semantic, pragmatic, and discourse constraints on speakers and writers. In this study, analyses of oral and written Mandarin Chinese narratives demonstrate that SS structures (subject head noun phrase [NP] modified by a subject RC) are produced more…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Nouns, Mandarin Chinese
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Newman, Matthew L.; Groom, Carla J.; Handelman, Lori D.; Pennebaker, James W. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
Differences in the ways that men and women use language have long been of interest in the study of discourse. Despite extensive theorizing, actual empirical investigations have yet to converge on a coherent picture of gender differences in language. A significant reason is the lack of agreement over the best way to analyze language. In this…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Language Usage, Oral Language, Language Patterns