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Schmader, Christopher; Horton, William S. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Speakers in conversation often tailor referring expressions in ways that reflect beliefs about the knowledge and perspectives of specific addressees. In this study we examined whether such audience design can influence speakers' conceptualizations of referents beyond the conversation. In a Wizard-of-Oz paradigm, participants identified novel…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Audience Analysis, Design, Man Machine Systems
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Groen, Martin; Noyes, Jan – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Communicating via text-only computer-mediated communication (CMC) channels is associated with a number of issues that would impair users in achieving dialogue coherence and goals. It has been suggested that humans have devised novel adaptive strategies to deal with those issues. However, it could be that humans rely on "classic"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication, Goal Orientation, Semantics
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Jordan, Michelle E.; Schallert, Diane L.; Park, Yangjoo; Lee, SoonAh; Chiang, Yueh-hui Vanessa; Cheng, An-Chih Janne; Song, Kwangok; Chu, Hsiang-Ning Rebecca; Kim, Taehee; Lee, Haekyung – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Learning and dialogue may naturally engender feelings and expressions of uncertainty for a variety of reasons and purposes. Yet, little research has examined how patterns of linguistic uncertainty are enacted and changed over time as students reciprocally influence one another and the dialogical system they are creating. This study describes the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Dialogs (Language), Graduate Students, Security (Psychology)
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Pexman, Penny M.; Whalen, Juanita M.; Green, Jill J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Recently, irony researchers have emphasized that irony interpretation involves metarepresentational inferencing in order that the perceiver can determine whether the speaker's attitude is counterfactual to their statement. This research investigated whether the perception of irony also depends on the extent to which an ironic statement is suitably…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Sociolinguistics, Interpersonal Communication
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Hancock, Jeffrey T.; Curry, Lauren E.; Goorha, Saurabh; Woodworth, Michael – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
This study investigated changes in both the liar's and the conversational partner's linguistic style across truthful and deceptive dyadic communication in a synchronous text-based setting. An analysis of 242 transcripts revealed that liars produced more words, more sense-based words (e.g., seeing, touching), and used fewer self-oriented but more…
Descriptors: Sentences, Interpersonal Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Linguistics
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Stewart, Craig O.; Setlock, Leslie D.; Fussell, Susan R. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
This study investigates cultural and communication medium effects on conversational argumentation in a decision-making context. Chinese and U.S. participants worked in pairs on two decision-making tasks via face-to-face (FtF) and instant messaging (IM). The analyses showed that Chinese participants tended to engage in potentially more complex…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Cross Cultural Studies, Interaction Process Analysis, Communication Research