The Parameters of Conversational Style
نویسنده
چکیده
There are several dimensions along which verbalization responds to context, resulting in individual and social differences in conversational style. Style, as I use the term, is not something extra added on, l ike decorat ion. Anything that is said must be said in some way; co-occurrence expectations of that "way" constitute style. The dimensions of style I w i l l discuss are: I. F ix i ty vs. novelty 2. Cohesiveness vs. expressiveness 3. Focus on content vs. interpersonal involvement.
منابع مشابه
Reflections on Jennifer Saul's View of Successful Communication and Conversational Implicature
Saul (2002) criticizes a view on the relationship between speaker meaning and conversational implicatures according to which speaker meaning is exhaustively comprised of what is said and what is implicated. In the course of making her points, she develops a couple of new notions which she calls “utterer-implicature” and “audience-implicature”. She then makes certain claims about the relationshi...
متن کاملThe Relationship between Self-esteem and Conversational Dominance of Iranian EFL Learners’ Speaking
The crucial role of affective factors like anxiety, inhibition, motivation and self-esteem have long been of interest in the field of language learning due to their enormous association with the cognitive processes involved in performance in a second or foreign language. This study aimed at investigating the relationship between Iranian EFL learners’ self-esteem and conversational dominance in ...
متن کاملPronunciation variant analysis using speaking style parallel corpus
To improve the recognition accuracy for spontaneous conversational speech, we collected a corpus to study how spontaneous conversational speech differs from read style speech. The corpus consists of two parts: 1) spontaneous conversational speech and 2) read speech with the same word transcriptions as the conversational speech. In word and phone recognition experiments, it was confirmed that, f...
متن کاملEnriching Speaking Fluency through Conversational Gambits and Routines among Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners
The activity of speaking is conducted spontaneously and there is not much time devoted to preplanning and arranging the utterances the speaker intends to deliver. Briefly defined, gambits and routines refer to the words and phrases that facilitate the flow of conversations. As such, one way to help learners acquire oral proficiency is to teach gambits that support the social skills emphasized. ...
متن کاملStrangers and Friends - Adapting the Conversational Style of an Artificial Agent
We demonstrate how an artificial agent’s conversational style can be adapted to different interlocutors by using a model of Person Memory. While other approaches so far rely on adapting an agent’s behavior according to one particular factor like personality or relationship, we show how to enable an agent to take diverse factors into account at once by exploiting social categories. This way, our...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1980