William Turnbull
Biographic Data
| ID | 166367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Turnbull |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Turnbull |
| SIGNATURE | TURNBULL W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
An appraisal of pragmatic elicitation techniques for the social psychological study of talk: The case of request refusals
The focus of the paper is the appropriateness of pragmatic elicitation techniques for generating talk to be used in analyses of talk and social structure. In the best pragmatic elicitation techniques (i) data are generated in situations in which researchers can manipulate variables in the testing of hypotheses, and (ii) speakers can talk freely and spontaneously without awareness that their talk is the object of study. This claim was tested in an…
Cross‐sectional and longitudinal relations between mother‐child talk about conflict and children's social understanding
We examined the relations between the ways 48 mothers and their 3‐ to 5‐year‐olds talked about a conflict depicted in a picture book and their children's current and subsequent level of social understanding. We distinguished explanatory talk, which directed attention to the actions that generated the conflict, from non‐explanatory talk, which discussed the conflict in terms of, for example, making up or saying sorry. Controlling for child age and…
Contents Vol. 42, 1999
A Social Pragmatic Model of Talk: Implications for Research on the Development of Children’s Social Understanding
We present a social pragmatic model of talk-as-interaction. Talk consists of observable and orderly sequences of turns by means of which participants together construct and interpret action. The meaning of a speaker’s turn, the action accomplished, is observable in the manifest details of that turn and responses to it. We discuss methodological implications and illustrate the relevance of this social pragmatic model for theory and research on hum…
Conversational structure and facework in arguing
Modal expressions as facework in refusals to comply with requests: I think I should say 'no' right now
Thematic Structure of Descriptions of Violent Events Influences Perceptions of Responsiility: A Thematic Structure Effect
To examine the influence of the thematic structure of descriptions of interaction on observers' perceptions of responsibility, subjects read a story about a victim-assailant interaction and then wrote out their reactions. Either victim or assailant was thematic and scenario content was held constant. A thematic structure effect was predicted: Subjects would write first about, write more about, and express more extreme judgments of responsibility …
The Poetics of Gardens
The counterfactual fallacy: Confusing what might have been with what ought to have been
When a coincidence is suspicious: The role of mental simulation
Particularistic and universalistic evaluation in the social comparison process
Cruel to be Kind and Kind to be Cruel: Sarcasm, Banter and Social Relations
The present paper is concerned with the knowledge or cognitive representations which individuals must possess in order to understand utterances occurring in conversations. We examined Brown and Levinson's (1978) model which reconciles the Cooperative Principle of Grice (1975) with the face-wants of conversational interactants by relativising the operation of abstract principles of conversation to aspects of the social relationship between the spe…
Everyday Explanation: The Pragmatics of Puzzle Resolution
Setting Agendas for Social Research
President Carter, in a 30-page message recently sent to Congress, emphasized the importance of science and technology and the need for congressional support of the scientific programs contained in the Administration's FY 1980 budget request ... It is disquieting, if not surprising, to note that the message contained only one casual reference to behavioral and social science research. (In fact the word education was mentioned only as part of the t…
Policy Perspective: Setting Agendas for Social Research
Facilitative and Inhibiting Effects of Distraction on Attitude Change
In a situation in which subjects listened to a persuasive communication while working on a task, they were told either to attend primarily to the communication (message set) or to the task (task set). There was, in addition, a message-only condition. Relative to the message-only condition, message set increased attitude change and communicationfavorable thoughts, and decreased number of counterarguments and recall. Relative to the message-set and…
SS. Peter and Paul, Kedington: A Notable Church in East Anglia
Conversational structure and facework in arguing
Cruel to be Kind and Kind to be Cruel: Sarcasm, Banter and Social Relations
The present paper is concerned with the knowledge or cognitive representations which individuals must possess in order to understand utterances occurring in conversations. We examined Brown and Levinson's (1978) model which reconciles the Cooperative Principle of Grice (1975) with the face-wants of conversational interactants by relativising the operation of abstract principles of conversation to aspects of the social relationship between the spe…
Modal expressions as facework in refusals to comply with requests: I think I should say 'no' right now
Particularistic and universalistic evaluation in the social comparison process
Everyday Explanation: The Pragmatics of Puzzle Resolution
When a coincidence is suspicious: The role of mental simulation
Facilitative and Inhibiting Effects of Distraction on Attitude Change
In a situation in which subjects listened to a persuasive communication while working on a task, they were told either to attend primarily to the communication (message set) or to the task (task set). There was, in addition, a message-only condition. Relative to the message-only condition, message set increased attitude change and communicationfavorable thoughts, and decreased number of counterarguments and recall. Relative to the message-set and…
The counterfactual fallacy: Confusing what might have been with what ought to have been
Thematic Structure of Descriptions of Violent Events Influences Perceptions of Responsiility: A Thematic Structure Effect
To examine the influence of the thematic structure of descriptions of interaction on observers' perceptions of responsibility, subjects read a story about a victim-assailant interaction and then wrote out their reactions. Either victim or assailant was thematic and scenario content was held constant. A thematic structure effect was predicted: Subjects would write first about, write more about, and express more extreme judgments of responsibility …
SS. Peter and Paul, Kedington: A Notable Church in East Anglia
Facilitative and Inhibiting Effects of Distraction on Attitude Change
In a situation in which subjects listened to a persuasive communication while working on a task, they were told either to attend primarily to the communication (message set) or to the task (task set). There was, in addition, a message-only condition. Relative to the message-only condition, message set increased attitude change and communicationfavorable thoughts, and decreased number of counterarguments and recall. Relative to the message-set and…
Setting Agendas for Social Research
President Carter, in a 30-page message recently sent to Congress, emphasized the importance of science and technology and the need for congressional support of the scientific programs contained in the Administration's FY 1980 budget request ... It is disquieting, if not surprising, to note that the message contained only one casual reference to behavioral and social science research. (In fact the word education was mentioned only as part of the t…
Policy Perspective: Setting Agendas for Social Research
Everyday Explanation: The Pragmatics of Puzzle Resolution
Particularistic and universalistic evaluation in the social comparison process
Cruel to be Kind and Kind to be Cruel: Sarcasm, Banter and Social Relations
The present paper is concerned with the knowledge or cognitive representations which individuals must possess in order to understand utterances occurring in conversations. We examined Brown and Levinson's (1978) model which reconciles the Cooperative Principle of Grice (1975) with the face-wants of conversational interactants by relativising the operation of abstract principles of conversation to aspects of the social relationship between the spe…
When a coincidence is suspicious: The role of mental simulation
The Poetics of Gardens
The counterfactual fallacy: Confusing what might have been with what ought to have been
Thematic Structure of Descriptions of Violent Events Influences Perceptions of Responsiility: A Thematic Structure Effect
To examine the influence of the thematic structure of descriptions of interaction on observers' perceptions of responsibility, subjects read a story about a victim-assailant interaction and then wrote out their reactions. Either victim or assailant was thematic and scenario content was held constant. A thematic structure effect was predicted: Subjects would write first about, write more about, and express more extreme judgments of responsibility …
Modal expressions as facework in refusals to comply with requests: I think I should say 'no' right now
Conversational structure and facework in arguing
Contents Vol. 42, 1999
A Social Pragmatic Model of Talk: Implications for Research on the Development of Children’s Social Understanding
We present a social pragmatic model of talk-as-interaction. Talk consists of observable and orderly sequences of turns by means of which participants together construct and interpret action. The meaning of a speaker’s turn, the action accomplished, is observable in the manifest details of that turn and responses to it. We discuss methodological implications and illustrate the relevance of this social pragmatic model for theory and research on hum…
Cross‐sectional and longitudinal relations between mother‐child talk about conflict and children's social understanding
We examined the relations between the ways 48 mothers and their 3‐ to 5‐year‐olds talked about a conflict depicted in a picture book and their children's current and subsequent level of social understanding. We distinguished explanatory talk, which directed attention to the actions that generated the conflict, from non‐explanatory talk, which discussed the conflict in terms of, for example, making up or saying sorry. Controlling for child age and…
An appraisal of pragmatic elicitation techniques for the social psychological study of talk: The case of request refusals
The focus of the paper is the appropriateness of pragmatic elicitation techniques for generating talk to be used in analyses of talk and social structure. In the best pragmatic elicitation techniques (i) data are generated in situations in which researchers can manipulate variables in the testing of hypotheses, and (ii) speakers can talk freely and spontaneously without awareness that their talk is the object of study. This claim was tested in an…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works)