Designing Speech for a Recipient
Subtitle: The Roles of Partner Modeling, Alignment and Feedback in So-Called 'simplified Registers'
Publisher: Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9789027256751
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Psycholinguistics
Description: This study asks how speakers adjust their speech to their addressees, focusing on the potential roles of cognitive representations such as partner models, automatic processes such as interactive alignment, and social processes such as interactional negotiation. The nature of addressee orientation is investigated on three candidates for so-called 'simplified registers': speech to children (also called 'motherese' or 'baby talk'), speech to foreigners (also called 'foreigner talk') and speech to robots. The volume integrates research from various disciplines, such as psychology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and conversation analysis, and offers both overviews of child-directed, foreigner-directed and robot-directed speech and in-depth analyses of the processes involved in adjusting to a communication partner.