Individual variation in participants' account of their own interaction
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Madeleine Mathiot
Madeleine Mathiot (b. 1927) is Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York 〈mathiotm@buffalo.edu〉. Her research interests include semantic analysis of grammatical categories and lexicon, structure of conversation, method in semantic analysis, and the ‘O’odham language. Her publications includeA dictionary of Papago usage (1973); “Sex roles as revealed through referential gender in American English” (1979); and “Semantics of sensory perception terms” (1983).
Abstract
The goal of the present study is to examine the extent and type of individual variation in the way participants in an interactive event, account for their own behavior. Two types of individual variation occur in the event chosen for in-depth analysis: (1) variation in the organization of ongoing behavior due to different mindsets on the part of the participants; (2) variation in the interpretation of aspects of ongoing behavior due to different feeling states on the part of the participants. These two types of individual variation are documented and their significance for understanding interaction, is explored.
About the author
Madeleine Mathiot (b. 1927) is Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York 〈mathiotm@buffalo.edu〉. Her research interests include semantic analysis of grammatical categories and lexicon, structure of conversation, method in semantic analysis, and the ‘O’odham language. Her publications include A dictionary of Papago usage (1973); “Sex roles as revealed through referential gender in American English” (1979); and “Semantics of sensory perception terms” (1983).
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