Naming and Describing in Social Communication
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10255124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John M Carroll (0000-0001-9166-2218, IBM Watson Research Center) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 309-322 |
| Publication date | 1980-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002383098002300401 |
| OpenAlex | W1794998873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 9 |
Naming and describing provide referential labels for entities. They seem to have much in common, but they also seem to be distinct. The social communication task developed by Robert M. Krauss (Krauss, Garlock, Bricker and McMahon, 1977; Krauss and Blucksberg, 1977; Krauss and Weinheimer, 1964, 1966) provides a functional model of how naming and describing are related and yet distinct modes of reference. Eighteen of Krauss's original dialogue transcripts were reanalyzed in order to characterize both the sequential relation between naming and describing (i.e., how a referential description is shortened into a name through use) and the structural relation between the two reference types (i.e., what parts of antecedent descriptive phrases are abbreviated and composed to form the consequent name)
Antecedent (behavioral psychology · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Order (exchange · Relation (database · Task (project management · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Social Psychology
On the ethical significance of social practices
I cannot baptize Satan
On the framing of one kind of indefinite referring expression
Coordinating reference in conversation
Lexical Entrainment in Written Discourse
When hedging helps, rather than impedes, communication
Use and acquisition of idiomatic expressions in referring by native and non‐native speakers
The Name Game
The communicative significance of Ngə̂mbà personal names
Creating names for things
Practices for initial recognitional reference and learning opportunities in conversation
Naming and Necessity
Ii.—proper Names
Ii.—on Denoting
The role of context in creating names∗
Naming’ as a mapping between N-dimensional geometries
The role of audible and visible back-channel responses in interpersonal communication
Concurrent feedback, confirmation, and the encoding of referents in verbal communication
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2025 (45) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |