Lexical diversity and magnitude of convergent versus divergent style shifting-: Perceptual and evaluative consequences

Bradac, James J.; Mulac, Anthony; House, A. Tanner

doi:10.1016/0271-5309(88)90019-5

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“…According to CAT, people adjust their communication as a means to manage both understanding and social distance (Dragojevic et al, ; Street & Giles, ). These adjustments can be studied in terms of either objective communication behavior (e.g., measurable changes in volume, pitch, speech rate; e.g., Bradac, Mulac, & House, ; Riordan, Markman, & Stewart, ) or subjective perceptions and evaluations of communication behavior (as e.g., positive/negative, appropriate/inappropriate; Ross & Shortreed, ; Platt & Weber, ). Early CAT work tended to focus on observable speech variables, and accordingly conceptualized accommodation in terms of measurable changes in these dimensions of speech behavior (i.e., convergence and divergence between interlocutors; Giles, ; Street, Brady, & Putnam, ).…”

Section: Communication Accommodation and Nonaccommodationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effects of Accumulated Underaccommodation on Perceptions of Underaccommodative Communication and Speakers

Gasiorek

Dragojević

2017

Hum Commun Res

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This study examined the effects of repeated instances of underaccommodation (i.e., insufficiently adjusted communication) on people's perceptions and evaluations of communication and speakers. Participants (N = 179) completed a series of three map‐based tasks that required them to follow directions that contained insufficient information. Consistent with hypotheses, as underaccommodation accumulated across tasks, participants inferred less positive motives for the speaker's communication, and inferences about motive for each task contributed directly and indirectly to overall evaluations of both the speaker and their communication. These results indicate that accumulated underaccommodation is consequential, and underscore the theoretical importance of motive attributions to predicting reactions to underaccommodation.

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Section: Communication Accommodation and Nonaccommodationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effects of Accumulated Underaccommodation on Perceptions of Underaccommodative Communication and Speakers

Gasiorek

Dragojević

2017

Hum Commun Res

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“…Moreover, this assumption also underlies the prevailing research underpinning multimedia learning. We know, for instance, how humans process and retain information (Gross, 1994), how human retention varies with the number of sources from which the information originates (Hapeshi and Jones, 1992;Lewalter, 2003), the individual contribution of media effects to learning (De Westelinck et al, forthcoming; Lowe, 2003;Mayer, 2003), the perceptual impact of lexical constructs (Bradac et al, 1988), as well as how to induce humans to think in a certain way (Cialdini, 2000;Xia and Lee, 2000). However, as any user who has viewed multimedia content over the Web will testify, such transmissions are rarely free from quality issues -media losses, errors and degradations are all factors which impact upon the user multimedia experience and which must be explored if human factors are to be truly integrated in distributed multimedia learning systems.…”

Section: Perceptual Multimedia Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceived quality of multimedia educational content: A cognitive style approach

Ghinea

Chen

2006

Multimedia Systems

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Abstract. Cognitive styles influence the way how humans process information, with previous research demonstrating that they have significant effects on student learning in multimedia environments. On the other hand, the perceptual quality of the human multimedia experience is a notoriously difficult to measure. In this paper, we report the results of an empirical study, which investigated the relationship between user cognitive styles and perceptual multimedia quality, in which users had the possibility to specify their desired Quality of Service settings -in terms of frame rates and color depth. Results show that whilst color choice is impacted by a participant's cognitive style, such Quality of Service parameters do not significantly affect perceived multimedia quality, and that users do not necessarily choose optimum presentation settings to enhance their perceived enjoyment and assimilation of multimedia informational content.

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“…The evidence for this comes from the study of alignment, a phenomenon whereby people tend to repeat the same linguistic features as a previous speaker has used. Alignment appears to be a highly pervasive phenomenon in dialogue: speakers have been found to converge at many linguistic levels, including those as diverse as rhetorical structure, speech rate, pronunciation, word choice and syntactic structure (Giles and Powesland, 1975;Giles and Smith, 1979;Schenkein, 1980;Levelt and Kelter, 1982;Bradac et al, 1988;Giles et al, 1991;Branigan et al, 2000), as well as at entirely non-linguistic levels, such as bodily movements, where it has been termed the "chameleon effect" (Chartrand and Bargh, 1999). In our example, Anne and Barbara converge on the use of the term work rather than the approximately synonymous job; in this case, their choice of terminology seems unlikely to reflect a particular conceptualisation, but rather a purely linguistic choice.…”

Section: Empirical Studies Of Two-party Dialoguesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Perspectives on Multi-party Dialogue

Branigan

2006

Research Language Computation

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Most research on dialogue has concentrated on dialogues involving two interlocutors. In this paper we consider the nature of multi-party dialogues. We discuss whether some of the important characteristics that have been identified in two-party dialogues and the theoretical accounts that have been proposed for them are also applicable to multi-party dialogues. We argue that the way in which common ground is accumulated in multi-party dialogues differs from the way in which it is accumulated in the two-party dialogues that have commonly been studied. However, we argue that these differences are related to particular characteristics which tend to be associated with either two-party or multi-party dialogues but are not inherent to them. We show that these characteristics can account for differences between different types of two-party and multi-party dialogues, including effects of group size, and we propose that the same fundamental principles underlie behaviour in both two-party and multi-party dialogues.

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Lexical diversity and magnitude of convergent versus divergent style shifting-: Perceptual and evaluative consequences

Cited by 50 publications

References 22 publications

The Effects of Accumulated Underaccommodation on Perceptions of Underaccommodative Communication and Speakers

The Effects of Accumulated Underaccommodation on Perceptions of Underaccommodative Communication and Speakers

Perceived quality of multimedia educational content: A cognitive style approach

Perspectives on Multi-party Dialogue

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