William A Villaume

Biographic Data

ID220971
NAMEWilliam A Villaume
GIVEN NAMESWilliam A
FAMILY NAMEVillaume
SIGNATUREVILLAUME W A
AFFILIATIONSAuburn University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS15
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
H-INDEX2

  • Presbycusis and Conversation

    William A Villaume, Mary H Brown et al.ARTICLEResearch on Language and Social…1997References: 6

  • Issue-Event Extensions and Interaction Involvement Text-Based and Meaning-Based Discourse Strategies

    Open AccessWilliam A Villaume, Jennifer Jackson et al.ARTICLEHuman Communication Research1989Cited by: 6References: 18

    Prior research focusing on textual features in the talk of high and low-involved speakers has characterized the discourse strategy of low-involved speakers as text-based and that of high-involved speakers as meaning-based. This study examined the extensions of issue-event structures by high-involved and low-involved participants to determine if this characterization of discourse strategies held on a pragmatic level as well. Results indicated that…

  • Interaction involvement and discourse strategies

    William A Villaume, Donald J CegalaARTICLECommunication Monographs1988Cited by: 9References: 10

    Communicative competence entails the ability of speakers to mesh their utterances to form coherent conversation. The research reported here explored the relationship between interaction involvement as a traitlike dimension of communicative competence and the use of grammatical cohesive devices to create explicit ties within conversation. It was hypothesized that three dyad types exhibiting differing patterns of interaction involvement would be di…

  • Interaction Involvement and the use of Referential and Formal Anaphora in Conversation

    Open AccessWilliam A VillaumeARTICLELanguage and Speech1988References: 20

    This study examined whether there are different cognitive burdens associated with the use of referential and formal anaphora in conversation, and whether these differences are systematically exploited by speakers seeking to converse coherently. It was assumed that speakers encountering difficulty in managing the pragmatics of conversation should rely more on the formal anaphoric devices of ellipsis and substitution and less on reference devices t…