Misunderstanding: The standard case

Weigand, Edda

doi:10.1016/s0378-2166(98)00068-x

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“…In intracultural and intercultural communication, diverse cultural information undoubtedly also plays a major role (Banks et al, 1991;Tannen, 1991Tannen, , 1992Tannen, , 1994Zamborlin, 2007). The manifold causes of misunderstanding may be divided into (Bazzanella and Damiano, 1999: 820-821 Undeniably, misunderstanding unveils problematic, troubled or strained communication where interlocutors, momentarily or more persistently, drift apart from the joint endeavour of mutual understanding (Dascal, 1999;Weigand, 1999). This is essential for communication to succeed in both intracultural and intercultural contexts, as efficient transmission of intended messages and correct comprehension are crucial.…”

Section: Understanding Misunderstandingmentioning

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“…Communication is sometimes impinged by a frequent and ubiquitous phenomenon in intracultural and intercultural contexts: misunderstanding (Weigand, 1999;Blum-Kulka and Weizman, 2003). Often perceived as disruptive, it is basically manifested by interlocutors' failure to understand each other due to the characteristics of their language or their performance (Bazzanella and Damiano, 1999;Dascal, 1999).…”

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Interlocutors-Related and Hearer-Specific Causes of Misunderstanding: Processing Strategy, Confirmation Bias and Weak Vigilance

Cruz

2017

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Abstract Noises, similarities between words, slips of the tongue, ambiguities, wrong or false beliefs, lexical deficits, inappropriate inferences, cognitive overload, non-shared knowledge, topic organisation or focusing problems, among others, may cause misunderstanding. While some of these are structural factors, others pertain to the speaker or to both the speaker and the hearer. In addition to stable factors connected with the interlocutors′ communicative abilities, cultural knowledge or patterns of thinking, other less stable factors, such as their personal relationships, psychological states or actions motivated by physiological functions, may also result in communicative problems. This paper considers a series of further factors that may eventually lead to misunderstanding, and which solely pertain to the hearer: processing strategy, confirmation bias and weak vigilance.

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Section: Understanding Misunderstandingmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Interlocutors-Related and Hearer-Specific Causes of Misunderstanding: Processing Strategy, Confirmation Bias and Weak Vigilance

Cruz

2017

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“…» Ces malentendus, abondamment exploités par les humoristes, sont ceux qui ont davantage retenu les théoriciens du malentendu. Certains ont même fixé à trois le nombre de répliques nécessaires pour les corriger (Trognon, 2002 ;Weigand, 1999 ;Schegloff, 1992) …”

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Garand¹

2009

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Ce texte propose un exposé systématique des différents types de malentendus, des plus banals et bénins aux plus retors et pernicieux. L’objectif principal est de comprendre dans quelle mesure le malentendu peut devenir facteur de mésentente. Si l’examen rationnel des sources et des motifs de malentendus s’avère un moyen légitime de contrer leurs effets néfastes dans l’aire de la communication, il convient également de ne pas succomber à l’idéalisme et d’envisager le caractère incontournable et parfois insoluble du malentendu. Dans cette perspective, notre réflexion remet en question trois postulats de l’éthique de la communication défendue par Jürgen Habermas : la place donnée à la raison spéculative et l’efficacité d’un métadiscours explicatif dans l’élucidation des malentendus ou dans la résolution des conflits ; la possibilité d’un dialogue authentique dans certaines situations de conflit ; le consensus comme visée ultime du dialogue. Alors qu’Habermas situe tout échange authentique dans l’orbite d’uneprétention à la validité, nous soutenons qu’il existe plus fondamentalement chez les sujets parlants uneprétention à la jouissanceet que les malentendus les plus coriaces prennent racine dans ce lieu des affects. Nous soutenons par ailleurs qu’il peut exister un usageéthiquedu malentendu.

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“…Weigand, 1998), understanding (with different degrees, cf. Vendler, 1994), and misunderstanding on one hand, and non-understanding on the other.…”

Section: Some Final Remarks On the Forms Of Understandingmentioning

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The interactional handling of misunderstanding in everyday conversations

Bazzanella

Damiano

1999

Journal of Pragmatics

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In this paper, we will deal with the handling -within the conversational interaction -of linguistic misunderstanding, on the basis of an Italian corpus. The following aspects of this process will be analyzed: the author of the repair, the phases of negotiation (i.e. "the negotiation cycle of misunderstanding"), the collocation of the repair (third and fourth turn repairs are the most common patterns), linguistic and non-linguistic misunderstanding.A general distinction will be drawn between coming to understanding, understanding and misunderstanding on the one hand, and non-understanding on the other. In conclusion, misunderstanding, as a 'form of understanding' internal to the process of comprehension, which has to be monitored and negotiated interactionally, should not be seen as a polar process (absence/presence of comprehension) but, rather, as a continuum.

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Misunderstanding: The standard case

Cited by 103 publications

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Interlocutors-Related and Hearer-Specific Causes of Misunderstanding: Processing Strategy, Confirmation Bias and Weak Vigilance

Interlocutors-Related and Hearer-Specific Causes of Misunderstanding: Processing Strategy, Confirmation Bias and Weak Vigilance

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The interactional handling of misunderstanding in everyday conversations

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