Sökning: "spoken conversation"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 32 avhandlingar innehållade orden spoken conversation.

1. 1. A Universal of Human Interaction? – Manual Movement as Interactional Practice in Spoken and Signed Conversation

   Författare :Paul Cibulka; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; human interaction; gesture; sign; sign language; conversation; speakership; self-touching;

   Sammanfattning : When humans interact, they may make use of a range of resources, such as head movements, facial expressions, manual movement, body posture and speech. It is assumed that participants both produce and perceive this stream of information in a differentiated way: Some segments are attended to as belonging to the content of the discourse while others are rather backgrounded and may serve to regulate the interaction in terms of speakership and turn-taking. LÄS MER

3. 2. Evidential marking in spoken English : Linguistic functions and gender variation

   Författare :Erika Berglind Söderqvist; Merja Kytö; Angela Hoffman; Marta Carretero; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Evidentiality; spoken language; English; corpus linguistics; gender; style; pragmatics; sociolinguistics; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the marking of evidentiality in spoken British English. Evidentiality is the linguistic expression of whether and how a speaker/writer has access to evidence for or against the truth of a proposition, and it is usually manifested in the form of sensory evidentiality (e.g. I saw Sam leave), hearsay evidentiality (e. LÄS MER

4. 3. Predictive Modeling of Turn-Taking in Spoken Dialogue : Computational Approaches for the Analysis of Turn-Taking in Humans and Spoken Dialogue Systems

   Författare :Erik Ekstedt; Gabriel Skantze; Roger Moore; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; turn-taking; spoken dialog system; human computer interaction; Turtagning; talad dialog; människa-data interaktion; Datalogi; Computer Science; Människa-datorinteraktion; Human-computer Interaction; Speech and Music Communication; Tal- och musikkommunikation;

   Sammanfattning : Turn-taking in spoken dialogue represents a complex cooperative process wherein participants use verbal and non-verbal cues to coordinate who speaks and who listens, to anticipate speaker transitions, and to produce backchannels (e.g., “mhm”, “uh-huh”) at the right places. LÄS MER

5. 4. One of a kind. The processing of indefinite one-anaphora in spoken Danish

   Författare :Philip Diderichsen; Kognitionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Accessibility; Referring expressions; Eye-tracking; Givenness; Spoken Danish; Visual World paradigm; Definiteness; Spoken language processing;

   Sammanfattning : It is a hallmark of natural language use that the way we talk about something reflects how it is represented in the mind of our conversation partner. This thesis studies the use and cognitive processing of referring expressions like one in comparison with other expression types in spoken Danish. LÄS MER

7. 5. Tag Questions in Fiction Dialogue

   Författare :Karin Axelsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; tag questions; fiction dialogue; direct speech; spoken conversation; pragmatics; corpus-based study; BNC; British English;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates the use of tag questions (TQs) in British English fiction dialogue by making comparisons to spoken conversation. Data has been retrieved from two subcorpora of the British National Corpus (BNC): a Fiction Subcorpus and the demographic part of the spoken component. LÄS MER