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

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ID2269589
AuthorsWilliam A Villaume (Auburn University), Jennifer Jackson (0000-0001-7331-7613, Auburn University), Tracy Goldsmith Schouten (Auburn University)
Year1989
Volume15
Issue3
Pages407-427
Publication date1989-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Communication Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0360-3989 • E-ISSN: 1468-2958
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-2958.1989.tb00191.x
OpenAlexW2155417517
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited21

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 low-involved communicators extended the event significantly more directly than high-involved communicators. Furthermore, the issue extensions of low-involved communicators were shown to be more sensitive to the comprehensibitity and information value of the stimulus utterance than the issue extensions of high-involved communicators. The results confirm that low-involved communicators have more difficulty than high-involved communicators in responding to the flow of conversation and that low-involved communicators compensate by relying on a text-based discourse strategy

Conversation · Conversation analysis · Discourse analysis · Event (particle physics · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Utterance · Communication · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems

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