The cooperative nature of communicative acts
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Wendelin Reich is an Associate Professor in Social Psychology at Uppsala University and a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS). He will be a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University in 2011–12.
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2022, LinguaCitation Excerpt :The learners’ abilities to use 吧ba across the four types of illocutionary force indicate their awareness of different cooperative natures of the pragmatic marker. As reviewed in Section 2.2, Tantucci (2017) categorises the directive and the interrogative uses of 吧ba as representing immediate intersubjectivity and the assertive and the topic introducing uses of 吧ba as extended intersubjectivity (Reich, 2011). The directive and interrogative usages of 吧ba attempt to involve a physical coagent, while the assertive and topic-introducing usages attempt to account for others’ emotions and beliefs “as a surplus” over a mere “co-actional engagement” (Tantucci, 2017: 51).
Resonance and engagement through (dis-)agreement: Evidence of persistent constructional priming from Mandarin naturalistic interaction
2021, Journal of PragmaticsCitation Excerpt :The organisation of utterances is syntactically, phonetically, semantically and pragmatically affected by what has been said throughout the same speech event. Constructions are therefore encoded, dis-assembled and re-assembled in dialogue in the form of joint projects (cf. Clark, 1996) or co-actions (cf. Reich, 2011; Goodwin, 2013; Tantucci, 2016a, b) whereby syntactical organisation, together with the locutionary, illocutionary and per-locutionary level of pragmatic cooperation, are constantly re-organised in the form of a turn-taking driven mechanism. This entails “a mechanistic psychology of dialogue” (Brône and Zima, 2014: 465) resulting in the alignment of constructional pairs in discourse.
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2020, Journal of PragmaticsCitation Excerpt :; Salt! These are all co-act proposals (cf. Reich, 2011; Tantucci 2016b, 2020a), as they hinge on joint attention and a shared activity among agents. Nevertheless not all of them encode a surplus of meaning that is distinctively centred on the Addressee's state of mind, viz. not all of them communicate a process of 'thinking about thought’ (Apperly, 2010: 76).
Dynamic resonance and social reciprocity in language change: the case of Good morrow
2018, Language SciencesCitation Excerpt :This entails that the creative organisation of utterances is syntactically, phonetically, semantically and pragmatically affected by what has been said throughout the same speech event. In a similar fashion, the online employment of constructions occurs in dialogue as a joint project (cf. Clark, 1996) or a co-action (cf. Reich, 2011; Tantucci, 2016a, 2016b) with the very idea of syntactical organisation being re-thought as a turn-taking driven mechanism. Dialogic syntax relies on the so-called interactive alignment model (Pickering and Garrod, 2006), which is primarily interested “in a mechanistic psychology of dialogue” (cf. Brône & Zima 2014: 465) giving a special emphasis on the automatic alignment of constructions in discourse.
Wendelin Reich is an Associate Professor in Social Psychology at Uppsala University and a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS). He will be a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University in 2011–12.