The advantage of story-telling: children's interpretation of reported speech in narratives

Köder, Franziska; Maier, Emar

doi:10.1017/s0305000917000344

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“…Furthermore, our results are compatible with research stressing the facilitating role of DD in narrative contexts (Köder & Maier, 2018). Findings for FID are less conclusive regarding its role in perspective shifting.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 78%

“…In narratives, readers or listeners have to consider the perspective of narrative characters in order to distinguish what's actually happening in the story world from what the characters think, say, imagine, or see (e.g. Ferguson et al, 2015;Salem et al, 2017;Köder & Maier, 2018). The required perspective shifts may be encoded grammatically by report constructions like direct discourse or free indirect discourse.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Little is known about whether and how this type of narrative perspective shifting affects referential processing (but see Köder et al, 2015, andMaier, 2018). In this paper, we therefore explore the time course of narrative perspective taking by tracking the resolution of perspective-ambiguous referring expressions during real-time processing of narratives.…”

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Taking the perspective of narrative characters

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An ongoing debate in the interpretation of referring expressions concerns the degree to which listeners make use of perspective information during referential processing. We aim to contribute to this debate by considering perspective shifting in narrative discourse. In a web-based mouse-tracking experiment in Dutch, we investigated whether listeners automatically shift to a narrative character’s perspective when resolving ambiguous referring expressions, and whether different linguistic perspective-shifting devices affect how and when listeners switch to another perspective. We compared perspective-neutral, direct, and free indirect discourse, manipulating which objects are visible to the character. Our results do not show a clear effect of the perspective shifting devices on participants’ eventual choice of referent, but our online mouse-tracking data reveal processing differences that suggest that listeners are indeed sensitive to the conventional markers of perspective shift associated with direct and (to a lesser degree) free indirect discourse.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Taking the perspective of narrative characters

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“…However, a more accurate description of DD and quotation is that it is a form of demonstration, as it is not necessarily limited to conveying the exact words uttered (it may not even convey the exact words uttered) but imitates/expresses other aspects of the speech event, such as pauses and hesitations (Clark & Gerrig, 1990;Davidson, 2015). These features make it a vivid way of reporting (Köder & Maier, 2018). Grammatically, all indexical expressions are shifted to the reported speaker's context: 'I' refers to the reported speaker, 'here' refers to the reported speaker's location etc.…”

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Inside characters' minds

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This chapter is concerned with the discourse and information structure of narratives. I propose that narratives are structured along two lines of information, one being about the reality of the narrative world, i.e., the eventualities taking place in the story, and the other being about the characters' internal realities, i.e., their thoughts, beliefs, perceptions and other mental states. I formulate these two topics that narratives address as the primary narrative Questions under Discussion. I propose that a narrative text is guided by these two questions. To flesh out this proposal, I use Segmented Discourse Representation Theory and suggest that each question is answered by specific discourse units. I highlight the role of report constructions in triggering this dual structure in narratives. I then apply this idea to Free Indirect Discourse reports and discuss the discourse and information function of the report segments and also touch on the application of this idea in first-person narratives. The presented scheme offers a tentative proposal on modeling the discourse and information structure of narratives by associating Questions under Discussion with specific discourse segments.

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Speech representation used by Mandarin Chinese-speaking children aged three to six years

Guan

Liu

2022

J. Child Lang.

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This study investigates how Mandarin Chinese-speaking children use Mandarin Chinese, a language lacking tense markers, to represent characters’ speech in their story narratives. Eighty participants, from three to six years of age, completed an elicited narrative task based on a wordless picture book. The representing forms and signals that they employed in representing activities were assessed. The results showed a significant age-related increase in the overall use of speech representation by the cohort of children. Regarding representing forms, direct representation exhibited its expected dominance among all age groups, and its presence in children’s narratives grew significantly with age. Concerning representing signals, shuō ‘say’ was the most prevalent across all ages and susceptible to significant age effects, and, with advancing age, children’s representing signals expanded from single verbs to more complex syntactic constructions. In addition, no significant gender effects were observed regarding the representing forms or signals that Mandarin-speaking children used.

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The advantage of story-telling: children's interpretation of reported speech in narratives

Cited by 4 publications

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Taking the perspective of narrative characters

Taking the perspective of narrative characters

Inside characters' minds

Speech representation used by Mandarin Chinese-speaking children aged three to six years

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