Memory for dialogue in different modes of interaction

The influence of reference acceptance and reuse on conversational memory traces.

“…The link between dialogue and memory has been highlighted in studies on conversational memory . Some of the determinants of this kind of memory, such as interactional content (i.e., whether an utterance contains information about the speakers’ intentions and attitudes toward the addressee; Keenan, MacWhinney, & Mayhew, 1977; MacWhinney, Keenan, & Reinke, 1982) or presence of sarcasm (Gibbs, 1986), pertain to the features of the utterances produced during the interaction; others, such as speaker gender (Baroni & Nicolini, 1995), addressee distractibility (Pasupathi & Hoyt, 2010), partner status (e.g., interacting with a coworker vs. interacting with one’s boss; Holtgraves, Srull, & Socall, 1989), partner familiarity (Samp & Humphreys, 2007), or active versus passive participation in the interaction (e.g., Baroni, D’Urso, & Pascotto, 1991), pertain to the features of the speakers engaged in the interaction. Conversational memory also depends on the episodic cues created at the time of initial encoding (Horton, 2008; Horton & Gerrig, 2005).…”