Bitte benutzen Sie diese Referenz, um auf diese Ressource zu verweisen:
doi:10.22028/D291-38032
Titel: | Rational over-specification in visually-situated comprehension and production |
VerfasserIn: | Tourtouri, Elli N. Delogu, Francesca Sikos, Les Crocker, Matthew W. |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Titel: | Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science |
Bandnummer: | 3 |
Heft: | 2 |
Seiten: | 175–202 |
Verlag/Plattform: | Springer Nature |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2019 |
Freie Schlagwörter: | Maxim of quantity Over-specification Entropy reduction Redundancy Audience-design Index of cognitive activity |
DDC-Sachgruppe: | 100 Philosophie |
Dokumenttyp: | Journalartikel / Zeitschriftenartikel |
Abstract: | Contrary to the Gricean maxims of quantity (Grice, in: Cole, Morgan (eds) Syntax and semantics: speech acts, vol III, pp 41–58, Academic Press, New York, 1975), it has been repeatedly shown that speakers often include redundant information in their utterances (over-specifications). Previous research on referential communication has long debated whether this redundancy is the result of speaker-internal or addressee-oriented processes, while it is also unclear whether referential redundancy hinders or facilitates comprehension. We present an information-theoretic explanation for the use of over-specification in visually-situated communication, which quantifies the amount of uncertainty regarding the referent as entropy (Shannon in Bell Syst Tech J 5:10, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-7305.1948.tb01338.x, 1948). Examining both the comprehension and production of over-specifications, we present evidence that (a) listeners’ processing is facilitated by the use of redundancy as well as by a greater reduction of uncertainty early on in the utterance, and (b) that at least for some speakers, listeners’ processing concerns influence their encoding of over-specifications: Speakers were more likely to use redundant adjectives when these adjectives reduced entropy to a higher degree than adjectives necessary for target identification. |
DOI der Erstveröffentlichung: | 10.1007/s41809-019-00032-6 |
URL der Erstveröffentlichung: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41809-019-00032-6 |
Link zu diesem Datensatz: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-380322 hdl:20.500.11880/34367 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-38032 |
ISSN: | 2520-1018 2520-100X |
Datum des Eintrags: | 16-Nov-2022 |
Fakultät: | P - Philosophische Fakultät |
Fachrichtung: | P - Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie |
Professur: | P - Prof. Dr. Matthew W. Crocker |
Sammlung: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
Dateien zu diesem Datensatz:
Datei | Beschreibung | Größe | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
s41809-019-00032-6.pdf | 1,76 MB | Adobe PDF | Öffnen/Anzeigen |
Diese Ressource wurde unter folgender Copyright-Bestimmung veröffentlicht: Lizenz von Creative Commons