L. Keevallik, E. Hofstetter, A. Weatherall, S. Wiggins
{"title":"Sounding others’ sensations in interaction","authors":"L. Keevallik, E. Hofstetter, A. Weatherall, S. Wiggins","doi":"10.1080/0163853X.2023.2165027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2023.2165027","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates the practice of “sounding for others,” wherein one person vocalizes to enact someone else’s putatively ongoing bodily sensation. We argue that it constitutes a collaborative way of performing sensorial experiences. Examples include producing cries with others’ strain or pain and parents sounding an mmm of gustatory pleasure on their infant’s behalf. Vocal sounds, their loudness, and duration are specifically deployed for instructing bodily experiences during novices’ real-time performance of various activities, such as tasting food for the first time or straining during a Pilates exercise. Vocalizations that are indexically tied to the body provide immediate displays of understanding and empathy that may be explicated further through lexicon. The existence of this practice challenges the conceptualization of communication as a transfer of information from an individual agent – even regarding assumedly individual body sensations – instead providing evidence of the joint nature of action and supporting dialogic theories of communication, including when language-marginal vocalizations are used.","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46861718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of relevance determinations in multiple text reading and writing: an investigation of the MD-TRACE","authors":"Hye Yeon Lee, Alexandra List","doi":"10.1080/0163853X.2022.2159741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2022.2159741","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined the role of relevance determinations within the context of undergraduates’ multiple text reading and writing. In this study, undergraduate students were randomly assigned to one of two experimental conditions (i.e., to compose a research report about either the causes of or the solutions to the urban housing crisis), using a library of 12 digital texts (six more relevant and six less relevant to students’ assigned task condition). Guided by the Multiple Documents Task-Based Relevance Assessment and Content Extraction (MD-TRACE) model, we identified the key features that students included in their task models, used log data to profile students’ text selection justifications and navigation, and categorized students’ writing as task-relevant or not. As such, we found students’ relevance determinations to play a key role in forming task models prior to text access, selecting and navigating texts during multiple text use, and composing a task product after accessing multiple texts. While we did not find students’ initial task models to be associated with their patterns of text selection justifications or navigation nor with writing performance, we did find differences in writing performance across students belonging to different text selection justification and navigation profiles. Implications for theory and research on learning from multiple texts are discussed.","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41264712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discourse ProcessesPub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-03-27DOI: 10.1080/0163853x.2023.2185408
Maverick E Smith, Christopher A Kurby, Heather R Bailey
{"title":"Events shape long-term memory for story information.","authors":"Maverick E Smith, Christopher A Kurby, Heather R Bailey","doi":"10.1080/0163853x.2023.2185408","DOIUrl":"10.1080/0163853x.2023.2185408","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We segment what we read into meaningful events, each separated by a discrete boundary. How does event segmentation during encoding relate to the structure of story information in long-term memory? To evaluate this question, participants read stories of fictional historical events and then engaged in a post-reading verb arrangement task. In this task, participants saw verbs from each of the events placed randomly on a computer screen, and then they arranged the verbs into groups onscreen based on their understanding of the story. Participants who successfully comprehended the story placed verbs from the same event closer to each other than verbs from different events, even after controlling for orthographic, text-based, semantic, and situational overlap between verbs. Thus, how people structure story information into separate events during online comprehension is associated with how that information is stored in memory. Specifically, story information within an event is bound together in memory more so than information between events.</p>","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10343716/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9833709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Pursuit of a Good Conversation: How Contribution Balance, Common Ground, and Conversational Closings Influence Conversation Assessment and Conversational Memory","authors":"Andrew J. Guydish, J. E. Fox Tree","doi":"10.1080/0163853X.2022.2152552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2022.2152552","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How do people determine whether a conversation is good or bad? Do conversational phenomena (reaching common ground, striving to contribute equally, successful conversational closings) influence judgments of conversation quality and recall of conversations? We tested whether individuals reading previously transcribed conversations considered psycholinguistic characteristics in their assessments of whether the conversations were good or bad. Additionally, we tested whether these assessments influenced how the conversations were remembered. Well-formed interactions (balanced, grounded, or with well-structured closings) were rated as better than ill-formed counterparts (not balanced, not well grounded, or with poorly structured closings). When recalling the best interaction they saw, participants chose a well-formed conversation about 80% of the time. When recalling the worst interaction they saw, they chose an ill-formed conversation about 90% of the time. Balance information was important to both judgments. Participants recognized well-balanced conversations more accurately and were also faster to recognize well-balanced conversations. In contrast, participants recognized ill-formed grounding better, although it took more time to do so. Well-formed and ill-formed closings were recognized to a similar degree, but improperly structured closings were recognized more quickly. These findings support the hypothesis that common ground, contribution balance, and conversational closings influence both perception of conversational quality and memory for previously transcribed conversations.","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44665032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sarcasm Across Time and Space: Patterns of Usage by Age, Gender, and Region in the United States","authors":"Alexander A. Johnson, R. Kreuz","doi":"10.1080/0163853X.2022.2085475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2022.2085475","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Past research has highlighted some differences in how sarcasm is interpreted by different groups of individuals as well as biases in individuals’ expectations regarding who is more likely to use it (e.g., occupation, gender). However, examinations of patterns of sarcasm production have been much less frequent. The current research extends past work highlighting the relationship between sarcasm production and demographic as well as geographic factors by extending this research to an online sample. Patterns of sarcasm production by age, gender, and geographic region within the United States were explored using three measures. Results revealed that older individuals and females showed decreased sarcasm use and were more likely to define sarcasm as negative, while geographic regions showed variation only in self-reported use. These results highlight some of the many factors associated with sarcasm use and further demonstrate the complexity of this contentious linguistic act.","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48122098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Catrysse, Margot Chauliac, V. Donche, D. Gijbels
{"title":"Keeping an Eye on the Refutation Effect: The Role of Prior Knowledge and Text-Based Interest on Attention Allocation","authors":"L. Catrysse, Margot Chauliac, V. Donche, D. Gijbels","doi":"10.1080/0163853X.2022.2142459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2022.2142459","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined the relationship between refutation texts and attention allocation by focusing on the interaction between important reader-and-text characteristics. Specifically, the authors investigated how prior knowledge and text-based interest affect attention allocation on refutation/control statements, topic, and explanatory and concluding sentences in refutation and nonrefutation texts. We employed eye tracking to monitor the reading behavior of 92 students in higher education. The results revealed that during first-pass regressive reading, nonrefutation-text readers, compared with refutation-text readers, read topic sentences longer, indicating the correct scientific information. Concluding sentences, summarizing the correct scientific information, were reread for longer by refutation-text readers. With increasing prior knowledge, refutation texts were read more slowly than nonrefutation texts during first-pass reading. A higher text-based interest increased rereading time in the refutation text and decreased rereading time in the nonrefutation text. This study advances present knowledge in the field by demonstrating that the interaction between text and reader characteristics affects attention allocation in reading and comprehension.","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48796215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Redl, A. Szuba, Peter de Swart, Stefan L. Frank, Helen de Hoop
{"title":"Masculine generic pronouns as a gender cue in generic statements","authors":"T. Redl, A. Szuba, Peter de Swart, Stefan L. Frank, Helen de Hoop","doi":"10.1080/0163853X.2022.2148071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2022.2148071","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT An eye-tracking experiment was conducted with speakers of Dutch (N = 84, 36 male), a language that falls between grammatical and natural-gender languages. We tested whether a masculine generic pronoun causes a male bias when used in generic statements—that is, in the absence of a specific referent. We tested two types of generic statements by varying conceptual number, hypothesizing that the pronoun zijn “his” was more likely to cause a male bias with a conceptually singular than a conceptually plural antecedent (e.g., Someone (conceptually singular)/Everyone (conceptually plural) with perfect pitch can tune his instrument quickly). We found male participants to exhibit a male bias but with the conceptually singular antecedent only. Female participants showed no signs of a male bias. The results show that the generically intended masculine pronoun zijn “his” leads to a male bias in conceptually singular generic contexts but that this further depends on participant gender.","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48020871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teachers’ gestures for building listening and spoken language skills","authors":"Kristella Montiegel","doi":"10.1080/0163853X.2022.2140556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2022.2140556","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates teachers’ gestures produced during directive actions. I examine three particular gestures—pointing to the mouth, pointing to the ear, and cupping the ear— that teachers frequently deployed when interacting with their deaf or hard-of-hearing students in an oral preschool classroom, a setting focused on spoken language and listening. Using conversation analysis, I find that teachers’ gestures occurred in sequences involving multiple directives to students and were routinely produced as subsequent directives, following students’ noncompliance or displays of trouble related to teachers’ initial directives. These gestural directives are used in two main instructional contexts: when targeting students’ linguistic abilities and when managing classroom conduct. The findings reveal a paradox whereby teachers’ gestures contribute to the classroom goal of socialization into oral communication, despite them being nonverbal resources in a setting that overtly prioritizes spoken language. Data consists of 25 hours of video recordings in one oral classroom in California.","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47043464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Development of Referring Expression Use from Age 4 to 7 in Swedish-Speaking Children","authors":"J. Vogels, Josefin Lindgren","doi":"10.1080/0163853X.2022.2132794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2022.2132794","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT When telling a story, a speaker needs to refer to story characters using appropriate expressions, which requires a mental model of the discourse. We hypothesize that, compared to those of adults, children’s discourse models are based more on factors that are less cognitively demanding, such as animacy, and as they grow older, discourse factors such as givenness will start to play a larger role. To test this, we conducted a longitudinal study of referring expression use in elicited narratives. Swedish-speaking children (n = 17) were tested three times between age 4 and 7 and compared to adults (n = 20). The results show that children, like adults, take into account if, when and how a character has been mentioned earlier when referring, but that they rely more on animacy than adults. These results indicate that the various cues for referential choices are in place in preschool children’s discourse models, but are weighted differently than in adults.","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48100640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling Satirical Uptake Using Discourse Processing Methods","authors":"S. Skalicky","doi":"10.1080/0163853X.2022.2128182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2022.2128182","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Informed by a theoretical model of satirical uptake, this study investigated processing behavior and comprehension of satirical news articles. Reading times for segments of minimally different satirical and non-satirical texts were collected using within-subjects (Experiment 1) and between-subjects (Experiment 2) designs. Segment reading times and participant familiarity with news genres were used to predict ratings of sincerity, humor, and agreement, as well as manually coded comprehension scores for the satirical texts. In both experiments, text perceptions were significantly different for satirical (vs. non-satirical) texts, with some processing differences observed in Experiment 1. Further results from Experiment 1 included no effects for segment reading times on text perceptions or comprehension scores but did include effects for genre familiarity on text perceptions. Experiment 2 results indicated slower reading times were associated with higher perceptions of sincerity and lower chances of satire comprehension, suggesting effortful processing is a marker of failed satirical uptake.","PeriodicalId":11316,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Processes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49381606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}