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An Interactional Practice of Registering Expectation Discrepancy: The Use of the Turn-Initial Token "Are" in Japanese
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Yuki Arita – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
This conversation analytic study offers an empirical analysis of the Japanese turn-initial interjection "are." The interjectional "are" is said to be pragmatized from its use as a distal demonstrative and has been considered as an expression of a speaker's internal state of being surprised at something. In contrast, this study…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Usage, Japanese, Interpersonal Communication
Informativity, Topicality, and Speech Cost: Comparing Models of Speakers' Choices of Referring Expressions
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Orita, Naho; Vornov, Eliana; Feldman, Naomi H. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study formalizes and compares two major hypotheses in speakers' choices of referring expressions: the topicality model that chooses a form based on the topicality of the referent, and the rational model that chooses a form based on the informativity of the form and its speech cost. Simulations suggest that both the topicality of the referent…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Speech Communication, Preferences, Form Classes (Languages)
Structural Repetition in Question Answering: A Replication and Extension of Levelt and Kelter (1982)
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Chia, Katherine; Axelrod, Cara; Johnson, Chloe; Bressler, Marly; Cooperman, Hannah; Chu, Amber; Dash, Elizabeth; Di Bella, Julia; Engelhardt, Amanda; Farruggio, Victoria; Folsom, Susannah; Gomariz, Helei; Greiner, Elizabeth; Hager, Sheridan; Hansen, Nicole; Kenefick, Caroline; King, Jessica; King, Khari; Lavaud, Molly; Leone, Elizabeth; McGuire, George; Montanez, Sabrina; Morpeth, Julia; Neumann, Michael; Rivera, Daniella; Sotolongo, Nina; Sparacio, Kaitlyn; Stokes, Kacie; Tarro, Dominic; Treacy, Alysia; Wagler, Kayla; Weitzel, Sarah; Woller, Savannah; Kaschak, Michael P. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
We report an effort to replicate and extend Levelt and Kelter's (1982) Experiment 3. In their study, experimenters phoned businesses and asked, "At what time does your shop close?" or "What time does your shop close?" Participants were more likely to produce prepositional responses (At 7 o'clock) to questions containing a…
Descriptors: Repetition, Interpersonal Communication, Questioning Techniques, Responses
Effects of Priming and Audience Design on the Explicitness of Referring Expressions: Evidence from a Confederate Priming Paradigm
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Loy, Jia E.; Bloomfield, Stephanie J.; Smith, Kenny – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
In formulating a referring expression, speakers may choose between an explicit expression (such as a proper name or a noun phrase) or a reduced form such as a pronoun. We investigated whether speakers are influenced by their conversation partners to produce full noun phrases instead of pronouns and whether this differs depending on whether their…
Descriptors: Priming, Interpersonal Communication, Speech Communication, Nouns
Did I Offend You or Did It? Agency Assignment in Interpersonal Apology
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Wang, Yiwei; McGlone, Matthew S. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
When apologizing to victims of transgressions, people may assign the agency for harm to themselves ("I'm sorry I offended you"), to the act ("I'm sorry it offended you"), or omit agency altogether ("I'm sorry you were offended"). They also may acknowledge or question the victim's harm by the choice of conjunction used…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Interpersonal Communication, Language Usage, Discourse Analysis
Discourse Reference Is Bimodal: How Information Status in Speech Interacts with Presence and Viewpoint of Gestures
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Debreslioska, Sandra; Gullberg, Marianne – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Speakers use speech and gestures to represent referents in discourse. Depending on referents' information status, in speech speakers will vary richness of expression (e.g., lexical noun phrase [NP]/pronoun), nominal definiteness (indefinite/definite), and grammatical role (subject/object). This study tested whether these three linguistic markers…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Role of Emoticons as Structural Markers in Twitter Interactions
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Spina, Stefania – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Emoticons play a key role in digital written interactions. Since the 1980s research has highlighted their growing relevance, as they allow to convey increasingly rich emotional, social, and pragmatic information. This article contributes to this area of research by providing an analysis of emoticons as structural markers in Twitter interactions.…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Social Media, Language Usage
Effects of Information Status and Uniqueness Status on Referent Management in Discourse Comprehension and Planning
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Brocher, Andreas; Chiriacescu, Sofiana Iulia; von Heusinger, Klaus – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
In discourse processing, speakers collaborate toward a shared mental model by establishing and recruiting prominence relations between different discourse referents. In this article we investigate to what extent the possibility to infer a referent's existence from preceding context (as indicated by the referent's information status as inferred or…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Eye Movements, Form Classes (Languages), Ambiguity (Semantics)
Latching/Rush-Through as a Turn-Holding Device and Its Functions in Retrospectively Oriented Pre-Emptive Turn Continuation: Findings from Mandarin Conversation
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Zhang, Wei – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
This article offers an interactional account of turn continuations in Chinese conversation, which are characterized as (a) being effected by latching/rush-through, (b) being clauses with predicates, either main or adverbial, and (c) taking a retrospective orientation in the kind of interactional work they do. Close examination reveals that while,…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Mandarin Chinese, Discourse Analysis, Phrase Structure
Claiming Uncertainty in Recollection: A Study of "Kke"-Marked Utterances in Japanese Conversation
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Hayashi, Makoto – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
As part of a growing body of conversation analytic research on epistemics in social interaction, this study explores various uses of the Japanese sentence-final particle "kke", which conveys the speaker's claim that she or he has some degree of uncertainty in recalling something from the past. The study aims to demonstrate how "mental" concepts…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Discourse Analysis, Japanese, Cognitive Processes
Pro-Forms as Projective Devices in Interaction
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Keevallik, Leelo – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Cataphoric pronouns have been characterized as being co-referential with a word that comes later. Considering that talk is produced in real time, with little benefit of knowing what is yet to come, participants understand cataphoric pro-forms to be projecting more talk. Projection is a crucial interactive resource, as it enables speakers to align…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Interaction, Word Order
On Lying and Being Lied to: A Linguistic Analysis of Deception in Computer-Mediated 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