Narrative Flashcards
Discourse
Speech structured at its highest level. A set of sentences that cohere about one or more related topics
two types of discourse
Narratives and conversation
Conversation
Periods of turn-taking as listener and speaker
Narratives
Periods when one speaker dominates
Talk-in-interaction
Spontaneous speech people use as they engage in joint activities
Conversational Fillers
Um, uh and like (I use “OK” a lot)
Pragmatics
The various ways that context contributes to the meaning of a discourse
Common Ground
A pool of information that all participants in a conversation share
Interlocuters
Participants in a conversation
Turn-Constructional Unit
A syntactic structure, ranging from a single word to a sentence, that can make up a turn in a conversation.
Transition Relevance Place
A point in the conversation where the listener can expect the current speaker to end a turn.
Principle of No Gaps/Overlaps
The tendency to avoid leaving a noticeable silence between turns of conversation and beginning a new turn before the current turn is finished.
Backchannels
Signals like “mmmhmm” and “uhhuh”, from the listener that indicate engagement and encourage the speaker to continue.
Overlaps
Instances when multiple interlocuters speak at the same time
When are overlaps most often used and why
Often during greeting to express heightened emotion or to finish another persons sentence to express engagement and affiliation.
Describe the three steps of conversational turn allocation
Speaker selects next
Listener selects self
Speaker selects self
Beat
The length of time it takes to produce a syllable, as set by the speaking rate of the last turn.
Entrainment
The synchronization of rhythmic behavior in social interactions.
Narrative
A form of discourse in which one participant dominates as the active speaker while the other participants assume passive roles as listeners.
Spouse Talk
Couples recount past experiences together as a way to reminisce and bond.
Decontextualization
The distancing of thought, language and behavior from the current situation.
What executive functions are important for story telling?
Memory allocation, planning, inhibition, and other cognitive processes necessary for guiding intentional behavior.
Story Grammar
The framework guiding the presentation of events and characters in a narrative.
Episode
The fundamental building block of a story
7 parts of an episode
Setting, Initiating Event, Internal Response
Attempt, Consequence, Reaction
Schema
A mental framework for organizing our understanding of how some aspect of the world works.