{"pk":28471,"title":"Contextualizing Conversational Strategies: Backchannel, Repair and LinguisticAlignment in Spontaneous and Task-Oriented Conversations","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Do people adjust their conversational strategies to the specificcontextual demands of a given situation? Prior studies haveyielded conflicting results, making it unclear how strategiesvary with demands. We combine insights from qualitative andquantitative approaches in a within-participant experimentaldesign involving two different contexts: spontaneouslyoccurring conversations (SOC) and task-oriented conversations(TOC). We systematically assess backchanneling, other-initiated repair and linguistic alignment. We find that SOCexhibit a higher number of backchannels, a reduced and moregeneric repair format and higher rates of lexical and syntacticalignment. TOC are characterized by a high number of specificrepairs and a lower rate of lexical and syntactic alignment.However, when alignment occurs, more linguistic forms arealigned. The findings show that conversational strategies adaptto contextual demands.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"conversational dynamics; common ground;interactive alignment; backchannels; repair"}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6656h1gv","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Christina","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dideriksen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Aarhus University","department":""},{"first_name":"Riccardo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Fusaroli","name_suffix":"","institution":"Aarhus University","department":""},{"first_name":"Kristian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tylén","name_suffix":"","institution":"Aarhus University","department":""},{"first_name":"Mark","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dingemanse","name_suffix":"","institution":"Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics","department":""},{"first_name":"Morten","middle_name":"H.","last_name":"Christiansen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Aarhus University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28471/galley/18342/download/"}]}