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Tolins, Jackson; Zeamer, Charlotte; Fox Tree, Jean E. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
People overhearing referential communication understand more when they listen in on dialogues rather than monologues. Some have proposed this is because entrainment selects better referential expressions. In a corpus analysis, we considered the role of addressees in contributing to entrainment and measured the degree to which particular…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Listening Comprehension, Dialogs (Language), Literary Devices
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Järvikivi, Juhani; Schimke, Sarah; Pyykkönen-Klauck, Pirita – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
We often use pronouns like it or they without explicitly mentioned antecedents. We asked whether the human processing system that resolves such indirect pronouns uses the immediate visual-sensory context in multimodal discourse. Our results showed that people had no difficulty understanding conceptually central referents, whether explicitly…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Semantics, Language Usage
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Galati, Alexia; Panagiotou, Elisavet; Tenbrink, Thora; Avraamides, Marios N. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
When speakers coordinate with one another, they have available a range of alternatives for conceptualizing and describing spatial relationships. To understand the features of successful communication in collaborative spatial tasks, it is important to identify factors that shape speakers' linguistic choices and evaluate them in relation to task…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Interpersonal Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer), Instruction
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Jordan, Michelle E.; Schallert, Diane L.; Park, Yangjoo; Lee, SoonAh; Chiang, Yueh-hui Vanessa; Cheng, An-Chih Janne; Song, Kwangok; Chu, Hsiang-Ning Rebecca; Kim, Taehee; Lee, Haekyung – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Learning and dialogue may naturally engender feelings and expressions of uncertainty for a variety of reasons and purposes. Yet, little research has examined how patterns of linguistic uncertainty are enacted and changed over time as students reciprocally influence one another and the dialogical system they are creating. This study describes the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Dialogs (Language), Graduate Students, Security (Psychology)
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Groen, Martin; Noyes, Jan; Verstraten, Frans – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
There is general agreement that discourse markers help dialogue partners to highlight or locate available goal- or coherence-related information. There is, however, less agreement with regard to how the nature of the relation between the marked stretch of discourse and the rest of the dialogue should be defined. Recent work (Louwerse &…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rhetoric, Dialogs (Language), Interpersonal Communication
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Kim, Jung Hee; Freedman, Reva; Glass, Michael; Evens, Martha W. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
We annotated transcripts of human tutoring dialogue for the purpose of constructing a dialogue-based intelligent tutoring system, CIRCSIM-Tutor. The tutors were professors of physiology who were also expert tutors. The students were 1st year medical students who communicated with the tutors using typed communication from separate rooms. The tutors…
Descriptors: Tutors, Tutoring, Physiology, Natural Language Processing