Filipi2004
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Anna Filipi, Roger Wales |
| Title | Perspective-Taking and Perspective-Shifting Associally Situated and Collaborative Actions |
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| Tag(s) | spatial language, perspective-taking, sequence organization, conversation analysis |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 36 |
| Number | 10 |
| Pages | 1851–1884 |
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.pragma.2003.11.003 |
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Abstract
In this paper, we investigate how speakers jointly construct talk around route directions using a map task. A corpus of eight task-based interactions from the Map Task section of the Australian National Database of Spoken Language—ANDOSL [Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 94, Adelaide 1 (1994) 97] form the corpus for this study. Basing our analysis on Taylor and Tversky’s [J. Mem. Lang. 31 (1992a) 261; Mem. Cogn. 20 (1992b) 483; J. Mem. Lang. 35 (1996) 371] route and survey perspective-taking strategies in route descriptions and Levelt’s [Speech, Place and Action: Studies of Language in Context, John Wiley, Chichester, pp. 251–268] study of speakers’ linearisation strategies two issues form the nucleus of the study. The first is to describe the interactions as the collaborative constructions of both the instruction-giver and the instruction-follower. Here we use Conversation Analysis to examine the sequential distribution of route and survey strategies. We find that the route perspective, which is associated with the activity of route-giving, is distributed overwhelmingly in base and post-expansion sequences, while the survey perspective, which is associated with suspension of the activity, is distributed in insertion and pre-sequences. The second and related issue is to try and account for the shifts in perspective, which like Taylor and Tversky [J. Mem. Lang. 35 (1996) 371], we find is a common strategy used by the speakers in our corpus. Here an attempt is made to account for these shifts at pragmatic levels.
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