The Issue-Event Distinction

A Rule of Conversation and Its Scope Condition

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2269449
AutoresKaren Tracy (0000-0002-6904-7427, University of Wisconsin–Madison, autor de correspondencia)
Año1983
Volumen9
Número4
Páginas320-334
Fecha de publicación1983-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHuman Communication Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0360-3989 • E-ISSN: 1468-2958
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-2958.1983.tb00702.x
OpenAlexW2073251205
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas43

Earlier research identified a conversational rule of relevance that states, “when a conversation is seen to possess an issue-event structure the preferred type of extension is a remark that continues the issue.” This study reports an experiment that investigates the generalizability of that earlier research and tests two conditions hypothesized to limit application of the rule. The limiting conditions are posited on the basis of a cognitive principle and universal concerns for face. The first principle, discourse comprehensibility, is found to have a strong impact on the applicability of the rule. The second condition, message importance, is not; instead, the relevance rule is found to apply across levels of message importance. Possible reasons for this finding are discussed and implications of this research for further investigation of conversational rules and for training concerns are presented

Cognitive psychology · Conversation · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Generalizability theory · Limiting · Relevance (law · Scope (computer science · Communication · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology