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An analysis of two forms of verbal mimicry in troubles talk conversations between strangers and friends

  • Kaitlin Cannava und Graham D. Bodie
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Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse
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Abstract

This chapter provides a set of guidelines, known as the Johnstone Boundary Condition Model (JBCM), to model lexical repetition into a dialogic sphere while providing an analysis of two ways to conceptualize lexical repetition and its conversational functions. Drawing from the work on interpersonal coordination and social support, we examined data from 273 dyads (151 strangers, 122 friends) to analyze the action of two types of linguistic coordination, Language Style Matching (LSM) and Local Lexical Repetition (LLR), on perceived understanding. Our results suggest that each measure alone does not predict outcomes (at least in this context); instead both measures together produce increased perceptions of understanding, at least among friends discussing problems. More generally, LSM and LLR were found to be conceptually different and empirically distinct and when paired with the JBCM can provide researchers new ways to understand the boundaries of linguistic repetition and its functions.

Abstract

This chapter provides a set of guidelines, known as the Johnstone Boundary Condition Model (JBCM), to model lexical repetition into a dialogic sphere while providing an analysis of two ways to conceptualize lexical repetition and its conversational functions. Drawing from the work on interpersonal coordination and social support, we examined data from 273 dyads (151 strangers, 122 friends) to analyze the action of two types of linguistic coordination, Language Style Matching (LSM) and Local Lexical Repetition (LLR), on perceived understanding. Our results suggest that each measure alone does not predict outcomes (at least in this context); instead both measures together produce increased perceptions of understanding, at least among friends discussing problems. More generally, LSM and LLR were found to be conceptually different and empirically distinct and when paired with the JBCM can provide researchers new ways to understand the boundaries of linguistic repetition and its functions.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. List of Contributors VII
  4. Part I: Setting the Scene: Forms and Functions of Repetition
  5. Exact repetition or total reduplication? Exploring their boundaries in discourse and grammar 3
  6. Function vs form – On ways of telling repetition and reduplication apart 29
  7. The derivational nature of reduplication and its relation to boundary phenomena 67
  8. Part II: Exact Repetition in Grammar
  9. Reduplication and repetition in Russian Sign Language 91
  10. A brief overview of total reduplication in Modern Japanese 110
  11. Affixation or compounding? Reduplication in Standard Chinese 127
  12. Fixer-uppers. Reduplication in the derivation of phrasal verbs 158
  13. Turkish doubled verbs as doubled TPs 182
  14. Cognate objects in language variation and change 200
  15. Part III: Exact Repetition in (Discourse) Pragmatics
  16. The lexical clone: Pragmatics, prototypes, productivity 233
  17. Sentence-peripheral Coordinative Reduplication in German: A pragmatic view 265
  18. Focus on repetition: On the role of focus and repetition in echo questions 295
  19. Repetition versus implicatures and presuppositions 329
  20. Exact Repetition in Tojol-ab’al Maya 350
  21. An analysis of two forms of verbal mimicry in troubles talk conversations between strangers and friends 366
  22. Language Index 389
  23. Subject Index 391
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110592498-015

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. List of Contributors VII
  4. Part I: Setting the Scene: Forms and Functions of Repetition
  5. Exact repetition or total reduplication? Exploring their boundaries in discourse and grammar 3
  6. Function vs form – On ways of telling repetition and reduplication apart 29
  7. The derivational nature of reduplication and its relation to boundary phenomena 67
  8. Part II: Exact Repetition in Grammar
  9. Reduplication and repetition in Russian Sign Language 91
  10. A brief overview of total reduplication in Modern Japanese 110
  11. Affixation or compounding? Reduplication in Standard Chinese 127
  12. Fixer-uppers. Reduplication in the derivation of phrasal verbs 158
  13. Turkish doubled verbs as doubled TPs 182
  14. Cognate objects in language variation and change 200
  15. Part III: Exact Repetition in (Discourse) Pragmatics
  16. The lexical clone: Pragmatics, prototypes, productivity 233
  17. Sentence-peripheral Coordinative Reduplication in German: A pragmatic view 265
  18. Focus on repetition: On the role of focus and repetition in echo questions 295
  19. Repetition versus implicatures and presuppositions 329
  20. Exact Repetition in Tojol-ab’al Maya 350
  21. An analysis of two forms of verbal mimicry in troubles talk conversations between strangers and friends 366
  22. Language Index 389
  23. Subject Index 391
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