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‘You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on’: Repetition in Dialogue and Monologue| title | ‘You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on’: Repetition in Dialogue and Monologue |
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| start_date | 2025/02/10 |
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| schedule | 15h15 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Room B10 |
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| summary | In psycholinguistics dialogue is often characterised as an especially simple, repetitive form of language use. This claim plays an important role in explaining how people can deal with the real-time processing demands of conversation. We take the opposite view and hypothesise that meaningful conversation involves actively integrating other people's contributions and this process drives language use in new directions. Monologue lacks this stimulus and people can more easily fall into habitual linguistic and conceptual patterns. We test this prediction by comparing patterns of self-repetition in monologues and dialogues in a corpus of everyday language use (DCPSE). The results show that people repeat their own words, syntax and semantics more often in everyday monologue than in dialogue. Monologues also use longer, more complex sentences and draw on a more restricted linguistic and conceptual repertoire. These findings challenge models of language production and comprehension which rely on conservative, egocentric processing mechanisms because they are unable to account for most (95%) of the language use we observe in dialogue. The talk ends with a question - what kinds of processing mechanisms could help to account for this? |
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| responsibles | Allen |
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| submitted | published | | 2025/02/07 11:23 UTC |
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