Vittorio Tantucci
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 659611 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Vittorio Tantucci |
| NOMBRES | Vittorio |
| APELLIDO | Tantucci |
| FIRMA | TANTUCCI V |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4108-6552 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 176 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Can ChatGPT reciprocate impoliteness? The AI moral dilemma
Do Examiners and Test-takers imitate each other? Dialogic resonance in second language testing
Do Test-takers imitate Examiners’ language use? What about the other way around? This paper is centred on the impact of verbal imitation in spoken L2 English language tests. We assessed this by measuring Test-takers’ and Examiners’ degrees of dialogic resonance (Du Bois, J. (2014) ‘Towards a dialogic syntax’, Cognitive Linguistics, 25: 359–410. doi: 10.1515/cog-2014-0024; Tantucci, V. (2023) ‘Resonance and recombinant creativity: Why they are imp…
The Comprehension of Headed and Headless Relative Clauses in Mandarin
For head-initial languages like English, there is a strong consensus that subject relative clauses (RCs) are acquired earlier and are processed more easily than object RCs. However, for head-final languages like Mandarin, theoretical predictions and findings are in conflict on whether there is a universal subject preference. Moreover, less attention has been given to language-specific factors like the omission of head nouns that might influence R…
AI, be less ‘stereotypical’
Can AI reproduce human interaction? It can, but only stereotypically. While it can simulate (and even exaggerate) dialogic engagement, its lexicon is less diverse, and the speech acts it realizes are more repetitive and less varied (we took directives as an example). Most importantly, AI struggles to represent ‘conversational uniqueness’, that is ways to interact that define the specificity of a particular conversation and are not entirely conven…
Imperfective aspect in Chinese conversation
Speakers constantly align with one another in interaction (Pickering, M. J. & S. Garrod. 2022. Priming, prediction, and the psychological foundations of dialogue. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 37(1). 15–37). They mirror and adjust to what others say to engage cognitively and socially. One common way to do so is through dialogic resonance, that is when speakers re-use the constructions produced by their interlocutors (Du Bois, J. W. 2014. T…
Impoliteness reciprocity online
Verbal engagement in doctor–patient interaction
Resonance and recombinant creativity
The present paper discusses the key role of creativity as a form of engagement and categorisation in interaction. One important way to display engagement ‘at talk’ is via resonance, that is when speakers re-use linguistic features that they heard from one another. Speakers constantly imitate and creatively recombine the utterances and the behaviors of their interlocutors. Recombinant creativity is a key cognitive mechanism subserving this, as it …
Resonance as an Applied Predictor of Cross-Cultural Interaction
In Dialogic syntax (cf. Du Bois 2014; Tantucci et al. 2018), naturalistic interaction is inherently grounded in resonance, viz. the catalytic activation of affinities across turns (Du Bois and Giora 2014). Resonance occurs dynamically when interlocutors creatively coconstruct utterances that are formally and phonetically similar to the utterance of a prior speaker. In this study, we argue that such similarity can inform the machine learning predi…
Getting attention in different languages
The present article examines the broad function of attention-getting embodied by parenthetical look in Chinese, Dutch, English and Italian. It analyzes a sample of the marker’s occurrences in corpora of spontaneous conversations and of interviews and discussions in terms of a systematic typology of parameters of interactional behavior and adopts a range of statistical methods to uncover patterns of (dis)similarity. The results include, inter alia…
Dynamic Resonance and Explicit Dialogic Engagement in Mandarin First Language Acquisition
The present article aims to shed light on the relationship between priming and creativity throughout Chinese children’s ontogenetic development. It has been suggested that priming in naturalistic interaction occurs not as an exclusively implicit phenomenon. New methodological desiderata beyond traditional acceptability judgments have been proposed, including large-scale corpus-based analysis, as it is noted that priming may correlate with interlo…
Pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic patterns of requestive acts in English and Italian
Reciprocity and epistemicity
Reciprocity is a (proto)social mechanism that involves (im)politeness as a balance of positive and negative actions among individuals: doing something good to someone is expected to be reciprocated in kind (cf. Culpeper & Tantucci 2021). The same applies for negatively charged behaviour (Culpeper & Tantucci 2021). The present study advances the theory of reciprocity both empirically and theoretically, as it extends the model to contexts of inform…
Politeness reciprocity in Shakespeare’s dialogue
Recently, it has been proposed that (im)politeness in interaction today is governed in large part by a Principle of (Im)politeness Reciprocity ( Culpeper and Tantucci 2021 ). This paper investigates whether politeness reciprocity works similarly in early modern English – specifically, in the plays of Shakespeare. Focussing on thanking behaviours, the questions of whether politeness reciprocity can be detected, and, if so, how social status might …
Resonance and engagement through (dis-)agreement
The Principle of (Im)politeness Reciprocity
Despite featuring prominently in religions and legal frameworks, and being discussed by anthropologists and sociologists in relation to rights and obligations in society, reciprocity has not received the attention it deserves in the (im)politeness literature. This article proposes and defines the Principle of (Im)politeness Reciprocity, which concerns the (mis)matching of (im)politeness across participants in interaction - something which can be …
Uno
Generic masculines – masculine forms used for women – are employed in many languages, for example English (Mills 2008), French (Coady 2018), Spanish (Bengoechea 2011) and German (Motschenbacher 2016), providing accounts of how gender is made visible in the language through morphological, lexical and syntactic units. These accounts are also linked with how gender is seen in societies and culture, reproducing an imbalance between women and men. Spe…
Diachronic change of rapport orientation and sentence-periphery in Mandarin
This article provides a corpus-based analysis of formal structure and rapport orientation of evaluative speech acts in written Mandarin starting from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) leading up to the present. It focuses on illocutional concurrences (IC) where the change of rapport management with the interlocutor significantly correlates with evaluative speech acts. The IC are holistic patterns that emerge at various levels of an utterance. They con…
From co-actions to intersubjectivity throughout Chinese ontogeny
Dynamic resonance and social reciprocity in language change
Illocutional concurrences
An evolutionary approach to semasiological change
Toward a typology of constative speech acts
The present study joins the long-running debate about the semantic–pragmatic distinction of the three domains of epistemic modality, evidentiality, and factuality. In particular, this work aims at providing both a theoretical and operational framework to investigate what type of speech act is at stake when a speaker/writer alternatively decides to mark a proposition as an epistemic modal, an evidential, or a factual construction. In fact, three b…
Textual factualization
Traversativity and grammaticalization
This paper discusses the new aktionsart of traversativity, here defined as the category marking the phase of ‘getting-through’ an event or a situation. Different from completives and resultatives (cf. Bybee et al. 1994), traversatives do not profile a phasal contiguity with the telos of a situation, and thus detach the actionality of the event from a subsequent resultant phase. This entails that, along a perfective cline of change, the aktionsart…
The Principle of (Im)politeness Reciprocity
Despite featuring prominently in religions and legal frameworks, and being discussed by anthropologists and sociologists in relation to rights and obligations in society, reciprocity has not received the attention it deserves in the (im)politeness literature. This article proposes and defines the Principle of (Im)politeness Reciprocity, which concerns the (mis)matching of (im)politeness across participants in interaction - something which can be …
Illocutional concurrences
Reciprocity and epistemicity
Reciprocity is a (proto)social mechanism that involves (im)politeness as a balance of positive and negative actions among individuals: doing something good to someone is expected to be reciprocated in kind (cf. Culpeper & Tantucci 2021). The same applies for negatively charged behaviour (Culpeper & Tantucci 2021). The present study advances the theory of reciprocity both empirically and theoretically, as it extends the model to contexts of inform…
Interpersonal evidentiality
An evolutionary approach to semasiological change
Toward a typology of constative speech acts
The present study joins the long-running debate about the semantic–pragmatic distinction of the three domains of epistemic modality, evidentiality, and factuality. In particular, this work aims at providing both a theoretical and operational framework to investigate what type of speech act is at stake when a speaker/writer alternatively decides to mark a proposition as an epistemic modal, an evidential, or a factual construction. In fact, three b…
Getting attention in different languages
The present article examines the broad function of attention-getting embodied by parenthetical look in Chinese, Dutch, English and Italian. It analyzes a sample of the marker’s occurrences in corpora of spontaneous conversations and of interviews and discussions in terms of a systematic typology of parameters of interactional behavior and adopts a range of statistical methods to uncover patterns of (dis)similarity. The results include, inter alia…
From co-actions to intersubjectivity throughout Chinese ontogeny
Textual factualization
Resonance and engagement through (dis-)agreement
Diachronic change of rapport orientation and sentence-periphery in Mandarin
This article provides a corpus-based analysis of formal structure and rapport orientation of evaluative speech acts in written Mandarin starting from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) leading up to the present. It focuses on illocutional concurrences (IC) where the change of rapport management with the interlocutor significantly correlates with evaluative speech acts. The IC are holistic patterns that emerge at various levels of an utterance. They con…
Dynamic resonance and social reciprocity in language change
Pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic patterns of requestive acts in English and Italian
Impoliteness reciprocity online
Verbal engagement in doctor–patient interaction
Resonance and recombinant creativity
The present paper discusses the key role of creativity as a form of engagement and categorisation in interaction. One important way to display engagement ‘at talk’ is via resonance, that is when speakers re-use linguistic features that they heard from one another. Speakers constantly imitate and creatively recombine the utterances and the behaviors of their interlocutors. Recombinant creativity is a key cognitive mechanism subserving this, as it …
Dynamic Resonance and Explicit Dialogic Engagement in Mandarin First Language Acquisition
The present article aims to shed light on the relationship between priming and creativity throughout Chinese children’s ontogenetic development. It has been suggested that priming in naturalistic interaction occurs not as an exclusively implicit phenomenon. New methodological desiderata beyond traditional acceptability judgments have been proposed, including large-scale corpus-based analysis, as it is noted that priming may correlate with interlo…
Interpersonal evidentiality
Traversativity and grammaticalization
This paper discusses the new aktionsart of traversativity, here defined as the category marking the phase of ‘getting-through’ an event or a situation. Different from completives and resultatives (cf. Bybee et al. 1994), traversatives do not profile a phasal contiguity with the telos of a situation, and thus detach the actionality of the event from a subsequent resultant phase. This entails that, along a perfective cline of change, the aktionsart…
Toward a typology of constative speech acts
The present study joins the long-running debate about the semantic–pragmatic distinction of the three domains of epistemic modality, evidentiality, and factuality. In particular, this work aims at providing both a theoretical and operational framework to investigate what type of speech act is at stake when a speaker/writer alternatively decides to mark a proposition as an epistemic modal, an evidential, or a factual construction. In fact, three b…
Textual factualization
An evolutionary approach to semasiological change
Dynamic resonance and social reciprocity in language change
Illocutional concurrences
Uno
Generic masculines – masculine forms used for women – are employed in many languages, for example English (Mills 2008), French (Coady 2018), Spanish (Bengoechea 2011) and German (Motschenbacher 2016), providing accounts of how gender is made visible in the language through morphological, lexical and syntactic units. These accounts are also linked with how gender is seen in societies and culture, reproducing an imbalance between women and men. Spe…
Diachronic change of rapport orientation and sentence-periphery in Mandarin
This article provides a corpus-based analysis of formal structure and rapport orientation of evaluative speech acts in written Mandarin starting from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) leading up to the present. It focuses on illocutional concurrences (IC) where the change of rapport management with the interlocutor significantly correlates with evaluative speech acts. The IC are holistic patterns that emerge at various levels of an utterance. They con…
From co-actions to intersubjectivity throughout Chinese ontogeny
Politeness reciprocity in Shakespeare’s dialogue
Recently, it has been proposed that (im)politeness in interaction today is governed in large part by a Principle of (Im)politeness Reciprocity ( Culpeper and Tantucci 2021 ). This paper investigates whether politeness reciprocity works similarly in early modern English – specifically, in the plays of Shakespeare. Focussing on thanking behaviours, the questions of whether politeness reciprocity can be detected, and, if so, how social status might …
Resonance and engagement through (dis-)agreement
The Principle of (Im)politeness Reciprocity
Despite featuring prominently in religions and legal frameworks, and being discussed by anthropologists and sociologists in relation to rights and obligations in society, reciprocity has not received the attention it deserves in the (im)politeness literature. This article proposes and defines the Principle of (Im)politeness Reciprocity, which concerns the (mis)matching of (im)politeness across participants in interaction - something which can be …
Resonance as an Applied Predictor of Cross-Cultural Interaction
In Dialogic syntax (cf. Du Bois 2014; Tantucci et al. 2018), naturalistic interaction is inherently grounded in resonance, viz. the catalytic activation of affinities across turns (Du Bois and Giora 2014). Resonance occurs dynamically when interlocutors creatively coconstruct utterances that are formally and phonetically similar to the utterance of a prior speaker. In this study, we argue that such similarity can inform the machine learning predi…
Getting attention in different languages
The present article examines the broad function of attention-getting embodied by parenthetical look in Chinese, Dutch, English and Italian. It analyzes a sample of the marker’s occurrences in corpora of spontaneous conversations and of interviews and discussions in terms of a systematic typology of parameters of interactional behavior and adopts a range of statistical methods to uncover patterns of (dis)similarity. The results include, inter alia…
Dynamic Resonance and Explicit Dialogic Engagement in Mandarin First Language Acquisition
The present article aims to shed light on the relationship between priming and creativity throughout Chinese children’s ontogenetic development. It has been suggested that priming in naturalistic interaction occurs not as an exclusively implicit phenomenon. New methodological desiderata beyond traditional acceptability judgments have been proposed, including large-scale corpus-based analysis, as it is noted that priming may correlate with interlo…
Pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic patterns of requestive acts in English and Italian
Reciprocity and epistemicity
Reciprocity is a (proto)social mechanism that involves (im)politeness as a balance of positive and negative actions among individuals: doing something good to someone is expected to be reciprocated in kind (cf. Culpeper & Tantucci 2021). The same applies for negatively charged behaviour (Culpeper & Tantucci 2021). The present study advances the theory of reciprocity both empirically and theoretically, as it extends the model to contexts of inform…
Resonance and recombinant creativity
The present paper discusses the key role of creativity as a form of engagement and categorisation in interaction. One important way to display engagement ‘at talk’ is via resonance, that is when speakers re-use linguistic features that they heard from one another. Speakers constantly imitate and creatively recombine the utterances and the behaviors of their interlocutors. Recombinant creativity is a key cognitive mechanism subserving this, as it …
Verbal engagement in doctor–patient interaction
Do Examiners and Test-takers imitate each other? Dialogic resonance in second language testing
Do Test-takers imitate Examiners’ language use? What about the other way around? This paper is centred on the impact of verbal imitation in spoken L2 English language tests. We assessed this by measuring Test-takers’ and Examiners’ degrees of dialogic resonance (Du Bois, J. (2014) ‘Towards a dialogic syntax’, Cognitive Linguistics, 25: 359–410. doi: 10.1515/cog-2014-0024; Tantucci, V. (2023) ‘Resonance and recombinant creativity: Why they are imp…
The Comprehension of Headed and Headless Relative Clauses in Mandarin
For head-initial languages like English, there is a strong consensus that subject relative clauses (RCs) are acquired earlier and are processed more easily than object RCs. However, for head-final languages like Mandarin, theoretical predictions and findings are in conflict on whether there is a universal subject preference. Moreover, less attention has been given to language-specific factors like the omission of head nouns that might influence R…
AI, be less ‘stereotypical’
Can AI reproduce human interaction? It can, but only stereotypically. While it can simulate (and even exaggerate) dialogic engagement, its lexicon is less diverse, and the speech acts it realizes are more repetitive and less varied (we took directives as an example). Most importantly, AI struggles to represent ‘conversational uniqueness’, that is ways to interact that define the specificity of a particular conversation and are not entirely conven…
Imperfective aspect in Chinese conversation
Speakers constantly align with one another in interaction (Pickering, M. J. & S. Garrod. 2022. Priming, prediction, and the psychological foundations of dialogue. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 37(1). 15–37). They mirror and adjust to what others say to engage cognitively and socially. One common way to do so is through dialogic resonance, that is when speakers re-use the constructions produced by their interlocutors (Du Bois, J. W. 2014. T…
Impoliteness reciprocity online
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