Contextualizing conversational strategies: backchannel, repair and linguistic alignment in spontaneous and task-oriented conversations

Autor: Mark Dingemanse, Riccardo Fusaroli, Kristian Tylén, Christina Dideriksen, Morten H. Christiansen
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Proceedings of CogSci 2019, 261-267. Austin, Texas : Cognitive Science Society
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Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2019)
CogSci
Proceedings of CogSci 2019, pp. 261-267
Popis: Contains fulltext : 213658.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Do interlocutors adjust their conversational strategies to the specific contextual demands of a given situation? Prior studies have yielded conflicting results, making it unclear how strategies vary with demands. We combine insights from qualitative and quantitative approaches in a within-participant experimental design involving two different contexts: spontaneously occurring conversations (SOC) and task-oriented conversations (TOC). We systematically assess backchanneling, other-repair and linguistic alignment. We find that SOC exhibit a higher number of backchannels, a reduced and more generic repair format and higher rates of lexical and syntactic alignment. TOC are characterized by a high number of specific repairs and a lower rate of lexical and syntactic alignment. However, when alignment occurs, more linguistic forms are aligned. The findings show that conversational strategies adapt to specific contextual demands. CogSci 2019, 24 juli 2019
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