Resonance in dialogue : The interplay between intersubjective motivations and cognitive facilitation
Pöldvere, Nele LU ; Johansson, Victoria LU and Paradis, Carita LU
(2021)
In Language and Cognition
13(4).
p.643-669
- Abstract
- Dialogic resonance, when speakers reproduce constructions from prior turns, is a compelling type of coordination in everyday conversation. This study takes its starting point in resonance in stance-taking sequences with the aim to account for the interplay between intersubjective motivations and cognitive facilitation in resonance production. It analyzes stance-taking sequences in the London–Lund Corpus 2, determining (i) the type of stance alignment (agreement or disagreement), and (ii) the time lapse between the stance-taking turns. The main findings are, firstly, that resonance is more likely than non-resonance to be used by speakers who express disagreement than agreement, which we interpret as a mitigating function of resonance, and,... (More)
- Dialogic resonance, when speakers reproduce constructions from prior turns, is a compelling type of coordination in everyday conversation. This study takes its starting point in resonance in stance-taking sequences with the aim to account for the interplay between intersubjective motivations and cognitive facilitation in resonance production. It analyzes stance-taking sequences in the London–Lund Corpus 2, determining (i) the type of stance alignment (agreement or disagreement), and (ii) the time lapse between the stance-taking turns. The main findings are, firstly, that resonance is more likely than non-resonance to be used by speakers who express disagreement than agreement, which we interpret as a mitigating function of resonance, and, secondly, that the turn transitions are faster in resonating sequences due to cognitive activation in the prior turn. We propose that the face-saving intersubjective motivation of resonance combines with its facilitating cognitive effect to promote appeasing communication. (Less)
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- Pöldvere, Nele
LU
; Johansson, Victoria
LU
and Paradis, Carita
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Stance-taking, Disagreement, Intersubjective alignment, Cognitive activation, Turn transitions, London–Lund Corpus 2
- in
- Language and Cognition
- volume
- 13
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 643 - 669
- publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85112643981
- ISSN
- 1866-9859
- DOI
- 10.1017/langcog.2021.16
- project
- The London-Lund Corpus 2 of spoken British English (LLC 2)
- language
- English
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