Repetition in Conversation: Toward a Poetics of Talk

Tannen, Deborah

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“…Estival (1985) then tried to confirm that Weiner and Labov's findings were due to linguistic rather than nonlinguistic structure on the basis of further analyses of their data. Another useful and extensive discussion of structural and other forms of repetition is provided by Tannen (1987Tannen ( , 1989 3), and some sociolinguists have appealed to repetition in explaining structural variation (e.g., Cameron & Flores-Ferran, 2004;Scherre & Naro, 1991;Travis, 2007). A very recent development has been the use of computational methods to precisely quantify structural repetition in fairly large corpora containing several thousand instances of specific linguistic forms (e.g., Gries, 2005;Szmrecsanyi, 2005Szmrecsanyi, , 2006).…”

Section: The Discovery Of Structural Priming Naturalistic Investigatimentioning

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Structural priming: A critical review.

Pickering¹,

Ferreira²

2008

Psychological Bulletin

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Repetition is a central phenomenon of behavior, and researchers make extensive use of it to illuminate psychological functioning. In the language sciences, a ubiquitous form of such repetition is structural priming, a tendency to repeat or better process a current sentence because of its structural similarity to a previously experienced ("prime") sentence (Bock, 1986). The recent explosion of research in structural priming has made it the dominant means of investigating the processes involved in the production (and increasingly, comprehension) of complex expressions such as sentences. This review considers its implications for the representation of syntax and the mechanisms of production, comprehension, and their relationship. It then addresses the potential functions of structural priming, before turning to its implications for first language acquisition, bilingualism, and aphasia We close with theoretical and empirical recommendations for future investigations. KeywordsSyntax; Priming; Grammatical structure; Language production; Language comprehension A central phenomenon in experimental psychology is repetition -when we perform an action that is the same in some respects as an action we have performed before, or that we have observed others perform before. Repetition is central because it can reflect the operation of many different underlying psychological mechanisms. It can reflect learning and development (as we acquire a capability, we begin to repeat the products of that capability), imitation (we can repeat others' behavior to accomplish social as well as learning and development goals), and (lack of) executive control (when repetitive behavior reflects a perseverative tendency and so an inability to inhibit a previous and now potent response). Repetition is also inversely related to creativity, in that when we repeat a previous behavior, we forgo the opportunity to create a novel behavior instead.In the past couple of decades, research in the language sciences has revealed a new and striking form of repetition that we here call structural priming. When people talk or write, they tend to repeat the underlying basic structures that they recently produced or experienced others produce. This phenomenon has been the subject of heavy empirical scrutiny. Some of this scrutiny has been because, as in other domains in cognitive psychology (e.g., priming in the word-recognition literature; e.g., McNamara, 2005), the tendency to be affected by the repetition of aspects of knowledge can be used to diagnose the nature of that knowledge. So in this case, the tendency to repeat aspects of sentence structure helps researchers identify some of the representations that people construct when producing or comprehending language. As Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Martin Pickering, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom. Email: martin.pickering@ed.ac.uk. we shall see, much structural priming is unusually abstract, evidently ...

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Section: The Discovery Of Structural Priming Naturalistic Investigatimentioning

confidence: 99%

Structural priming: A critical review.

Pickering¹,

Ferreira²

2008

Psychological Bulletin

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“…At the study site 40% of residents exhibit depressive symptoms; 12% meet clinical criteria for Major Depression [81]. ‡ Transcription conventions [82] indicate, respectively: bracket at the start of a line, overlapping speech; question mark, rising tone; period, falling tone; bold face, emphasis. § Texts were verified by replaying the tape and correcting the transcripts.…”

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The process of self-report of impairment in clinical research

Luborsky

1995

Social Science & Medicine

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This paper examines how labels for impairment are negotiated by people with disabilities during clinical assessment. It builds on Robert Murphy's (1987) explanations of the disability experience as rooted in the individual's sense of having multiple past, present and intended future bodyselves. Using transcripts of five consecutive daily clinical research assessments, it describes the conduct of clinical research assessments with an older man with stroke-related motor impairments and dysphoria. It also examines how the researcher as Other shapes a person's sense of identity, experience and quality of life by regulating the medical labels for personal experience, and by authoring socially authoritative scientific models of disabilities. Points of dissension (regarding identity, discourse and time perspectives) and collaboration are identified and then illustrated with excerpts from the transcripts. Analysis reveals how salient personal experiences are locally asserted in discourse, and selectively misrepresented in the clinical research record.

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“…Otro recurso de la narrativa con apariencia de oralidad es el uso de la repetición y la reiteración de elementos en el discurso (Tannen, 1982;Tannen, 1987) dado que, como explica Tannen, "repetition, which is artfully developed and intensified in literary discourse, is spontaneous, pervasive, and often relatively automatic in conversation" (1987: 580-581 Respecto al uso del voseo en esta obra de Salarrué podemos hacer las siguientes observaciones generales: Los padres utilizan vos, y a veces usted, al dirigirse a sus hijos. En cambio los hijos muestran su deferencia y respeto al dirigirse a sus padres solo con usted.…”

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La recreación literaria del una variedad lingüística: Cuentos de barro de Salarrué

Mendoza

2017

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El análisis de un texto literario se puede enriquecer con la identificación de los elementos fonológicos, morfológicos, sintácticos y léxicos utilizados por el autor para recrear la impresión de una variedad lingüística particular con sus características regionales y/o sociales. Al mismo tiempo, el identificar esos elementos nos permite dilucidar la forma en que el autor consigue proyectar una impresión de oralidad en su obra y evaluar su habilidad al hacerlo. Por tanto, el presente artículo se enfoca en el análisis de las estrategias lingüísticas más sobresalientes que el autor salvadoreño Salvador Salazar Arrué (Salarrué) emplea en su obra Cuentos de barro con el propósito de recrear la variedad lingüística del español salvadoreño, la cual continúa siendo relativamente poco estudiada hasta ahora, y cómo esas estrategias son desplegadas hábilmente por el autor para darle un efecto de oralidad a su prosa. Palabras clave: lengua española, variedad lingüística, español salvadoreño, dialecto literario, oralidad. ABSTRACTThe analysis of a literary text can be enriched by the identification of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical features used to recreate the effect of a particular language variety and its regional and/ or social characteristics. At the same time, identifying such features allows us to gain specific knowledge about how writers project a sense of orality in their prose and how effective they are in doing so. Thus, this article focuses on the most prominent linguistic strategies employed by El Salvadorian author Salvador Salazar Arrué (Salarrué) in his work Cuentos de barro to represent the speech of this relatively understudied linguistic variety of Spanish and how such strategies effectively contribute to recreate a sense of orality in the author's prose.

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Repetition in Conversation: Toward a Poetics of Talk

Cited by 317 publications

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Structural priming: A critical review.

Structural priming: A critical review.

The process of self-report of impairment in clinical research

La recreación literaria del una variedad lingüística: Cuentos de barro de Salarrué

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