Events 
| CRC Colloquium |
| Montag, 16.04.2007 16:00 - 18:00 | |
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Pat Healey Queen Mary's College London University Great Britain http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~ph/ "Interactive Misalignment: Experiments on Dialogue Co-ordination Mechanisms" Most models of human dialogue are founded on positive characterisations of communicative success. In this talk I will propose that it is more productive to view communication as a special case of misunderstanding. The starting point is a paradox in Pickering and Garrod's (2004) interactive alignment model. This uses priming as the main mechanism of dialogue co-ordination. However, priming is an inherently conservative process and cannot itself account for language change or innovation. I will present evidence from two experiments which show that semantically distinct sub-languages emerge rapidly in small group communication. The results highlight global and local patterns of language change that cannot be accounted for by priming. Two further experiments test the hypothesis that direct interaction plays a key role in co-ordination by interfering with specific interaction mechanisms. I will argue that the results show that it is interactive mis-alignment -- the use of juxtaposition and contrasts between contributions -- that is the key mechanism in the development of dialogue co-ordination. |
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| Contact | |
| contact-person: | Hannes Rieser |
| homepage: | ariadne.coli.uni-bielefeld.de |