Topical Profiling

Emergent, Co-Occurring, and Relationally Defining Topics in Talk

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2350100
AutoresKathy Kellermann, N A Palomares (0000-0002-7754-6357, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Ano2004
Volume23
Fascículo3
Páginas308-337
Data de publicação2004-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Language and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0261-927X • E-ISSN: 1552-6526
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0261927x04266811
OpenAlexW2168240416
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas69

This research profiles the topics of everyday talk, pinpointing topical patterns that are emergent, co-occurring, and relationally defining. Participants reported topics of their conversations with particular types of people (e.g., parents, significant others, bosses, professors, service people, etc.). The most commonly emerging topics were those most central to participants' lives and that helped them "check in" with (i.e., update) and "check out" from (i.e., depart) others. Topics co-occurred to carry out conversational routines (e.g., starting and ending), fulfill communicative functions (e.g., informing), and achieve interpersonal agendas (e.g., comforting). Topics differed in their absolute prospects of arising within particular relational types and in their relative prospects of arising across relational types. The relational type was predictable more than 45% of the time by knowing only which topics occurred (and which did not). The profile of people's topical talk is one of patterns in the topics that arise in their lives, that co-occur in their conversations, and that define their relationships

Interpersonal communication · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology