Comparing individual and collective management of referential choices in dialogue

Knutsen, Dominique; Fossard, Marion; Achim, Amélie M

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Article dans une revue scientifique: Article original

DOI :

10.1177/17470218211037117

Permalink :

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12210/73985

Title :

Comparing individual and collective management of referential choices in dialogue

Author(s) :

Knutsen, Dominique [Auteur]

Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193
Fossard, Marion [Auteur]
Université de Neuchâtel = University of Neuchatel [UNINE]
Achim, Amélie M [Auteur]

Journal title :

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Abbreviated title :

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volume number :

Pages :

712-729

Publisher :

SAGE Publications

Publication date :

2021-09-11

English keyword(s) :

Dialogue
referential choices
referential accessibility
grounding
turn-taking

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives

English abstract : [en]

Past research shows that when a discourse referent is mentioned repeatedly, it is usually introduced with a full noun phrase and maintained with a reduced form such as a pronoun. Is this also the case in dialogue, where ...
Show more >Past research shows that when a discourse referent is mentioned repeatedly, it is usually introduced with a full noun phrase and maintained with a reduced form such as a pronoun. Is this also the case in dialogue, where the same referent may be introduced by one person and maintained by another person? An experiment was conducted in which participants either told entire stories to each other or told stories together, thus enabling us to contrast situations in which characters were introduced and maintained by the same person (control condition) and situations in which the introduction and the maintaining of each character were performed by different people (alternating condition). Story complexity was also manipulated through the introduction of one or two characters in each story. We found that participants were less likely to use reduced forms to maintain referents in the alternating condition. The use of reduced forms also depended on the context in which the referent was maintained (in particular, first or second mention of a character) and on story complexity. These results shed light on how the pressure to signal understanding to one’s conversational partner affects referential choices throughout the interaction.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille

Collections :

Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193

Research team(s) :

Équipe Langage

Submission date :

2022-05-03T07:13:00Z
2022-05-03T14:31:59Z
2022-05-09T08:59:38Z
2022-05-09T10:09:27Z

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