The Bias Toward Single-Unit Turns in Conversation

IF 3 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
Jeffrey D. Robinson, Christoph Rühlemann, Daniel Taylor Rodriguez
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Abstract

ABSTRACT Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson argued that the rules for turn taking for conversation involve a confluence of pressures that bias turn size toward single turn constructional units (TCUs), which leads to an empirical prediction that turns are more likely to be composed of single (vs. multiple) TCUs. We directly test and confirm this “single-TCU bias” by using conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, and Bayesian statistics to assess the conversational subcorpus of the British National Corpus (BNC-C), which contains 475,509 turns of talk. Our results confirm this bias, showing that 67% of turns are composed of single TCUs; we discuss why this estimate is conservative. The mean word length for single-TCU turns was 4.5 (SD = 3.4), compared to 19.9 (SD = 22.6) for multi-TCU turns. Our findings reinforce the ideas that the natural habitat for an accountable social action is the single TCU (vs. the turn), and that interaction is fundamentally organized (i.e., both produced and understood) on an action-by-action basis, which is a TCU-by-TCU basis. Data are in British English.
会话中对单一单位转折的偏见
摘要Sacks、Schegloff和Jefferson认为,会话中的转向规则涉及一系列压力,这些压力使转向大小偏向于单转向结构单元(TCU),这导致了一种经验预测,即转向更有可能由单个(相对于多个)TCU组成。我们通过使用会话分析、语料库语言学和贝叶斯统计来评估英国国家语料库(BNC-C)的会话子语料库,直接测试和证实了这种“单一TCU偏见”,该语料库包含475509个会话转折。我们的结果证实了这种偏差,表明67%的匝由单个TCU组成;我们讨论为什么这个估计是保守的。单个TCU匝的平均字长为4.5(SD=3.4),而多个TCU匝为19.9(SD=22.6)。我们的研究结果强化了这样一种观点,即负责任的社会行动的自然栖息地是单一的TCU(相对于回合),互动是在逐个行动的基础上从根本上组织起来的(即产生和理解),这是逐个TCU的基础。数据采用英国英语。
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CiteScore
7.30
自引率
7.40%
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20
期刊介绍: The journal publishes the highest quality empirical and theoretical research bearing on language as it is used in interaction. Researchers in communication, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology and ethnography are likely to be the most active contributors, but we welcome submission of articles from the broad range of interaction researchers. Published papers will normally involve the close analysis of naturally-occurring interaction. The journal is also open to theoretical essays, and to quantitative studies where these are tied closely to the results of naturalistic observation.
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