Referential Communication Between Friends and Strangers in the Wild

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.5210/dad.2021.103

Kris Liu, J. D'Arcey, M. Walker, J. E. Tree

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Abstract

The Map Task (Anderson et al., 1991) and Tangram Task (Clark & Wilkes-Gibbs, 1986) are traditional referential communication tasks that are used in psycholinguistics research to demonstrate how conversational partners mutually agree on descriptions (or referring expressions) for landmarks or unusual target objects. These highly controlled, laboratory-based tasks take place under conditions that are relatively unusual for naturally-occurring conversations (Speed, Wnuk, & Majid, 2016). Using the Artwalk Task (Liu, Fox Tree, & Walker, 2016) – a real-world-situated blend of the Map Task and Tangram Task – we showed that the process of negotiating referring expressions “in the wild” is similar to the process that takes place in a laboratory. In addition to replicating laboratory results showing lexical entrainment, we also found that acquaintanceship and extraversion influenced the number of unique descriptors used by pairs. In round 1, introverts in stranger pairs used fewer descriptors but introverts in friend pairs were indistinguishable from extraverts. The influence of extraversion declined by round 2. Lexical entrainment observed in labs is generalizable to realworld settings, and lexical entrainment in naturalistic communication, at least, is subject to social and personality factors.

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野外朋友与陌生人之间的参考交流

地图任务(Anderson et al.， 1991)和拼图任务(Clark & Wilkes-Gibbs, 1986)是传统的参照交际任务，用于心理语言学研究，以证明会话伙伴如何就地标或不寻常目标物体的描述(或参照表达)达成一致。这些高度受控的、基于实验室的任务发生在相对不寻常的条件下，对于自然发生的对话(Speed, Wnuk， & Majid, 2016)。使用Artwalk任务(Liu, Fox Tree， & Walker, 2016)——一个真实世界的地图任务和拼图任务的混合体——我们发现，“在野外”协商引用表达式的过程与在实验室中发生的过程相似。除了重复实验结果显示词汇夹带，我们还发现，熟悉和外向影响的唯一描述词的成对使用的数量。在第一轮中，陌生人组中的内向者使用较少的描述词，但朋友组中的内向者与外向者没有区别。外向性的影响在第二轮下降。在实验室中观察到的词汇夹带可以推广到现实世界中，而在自然主义交流中的词汇夹带，至少是受社会和人格因素的影响。

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Dialogue and Discourse Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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1.90

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12 weeks

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