RUI: Interpersonal Underpinnings of Language Use

RUI：语言使用的人际基础

• 批准号: 9601311
• 负责人: Thomas Holtgraves
• 金额: $ 8.89万
• 依托单位: Ball State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-15 至 1999-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9601311&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Interpersonal; Underpinnings; Language; Use

The goal of the proposed research is to increase understanding of the social psychological underpinnings of language production and comprehension. A major focus of this research will be on conversational indirectness. People frequently convey their meaning indirectly, and the phenomenon has important implications for both cognitive psychology and social psychology. Most previous research on indirectness has examined requests, a relatively unique type of remark. The present proposal will extend this research by examining the production and comprehension of utterances that function as replies. Several experiments will be conducted to examine six general issues. First, how can speakers respond indirectly to questions and requests? Second, how are indirect replies interpreted, and what role does the interpersonal context play in this process? Third, does the comprehension of indirect replies involve an inference process, or are these remarks recognized in a relatively automatic fashion? Fourth, what is the role played by paralinguistic cues such as response hesitation in the comprehension of indirect replies? Fifth, do hearers make any other inferences as a function of a speaker's remarks, and if so how do they do so? Sixth, do people differ in terms of how they comprehend the meaning of others' remarks? The research will shed new light on interpersonal relationships, and the unique role of language in how people understand and interact with one another.

这项研究的目的是增加对语言产生和理解的社会心理基础的理解。 本研究的一个主要重点将是会话的间接性。 人们经常间接地表达自己的意思，这一现象对认知心理学和社会心理学都有重要的影响。 以前大多数关于间接性的研究都考察了请求，这是一种相对独特的评论类型。 本建议将扩大这一研究的生产和理解的话语功能的答复。 将进行几个实验来研究六个一般性问题。 首先，演讲者如何间接回应问题和请求？ 第二，如何解释间接回答，以及人际语境在这一过程中扮演什么角色？ 第三，间接回答的理解是否涉及推理过程，或者这些评论是以相对自动的方式被识别的？ 第四，在间接回答的理解过程中，反应犹豫等非语言线索扮演了什么样的角色？ 第五，听者是否会根据说话者的话语做出其他推断？如果是，他们是如何做的？ 第六，人们对他人言论的理解是否存在差异？ 这项研究将为人际关系以及语言在人们相互理解和互动中的独特作用提供新的视角。