Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK.
Department of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 9YR, UK.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2023 Feb 13;378(1870):20210362. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0362. Epub 2022 Dec 26.
In dialogue, speakers process a great deal of information, take and give the floor to each other, and plan and adjust their contributions on the fly. Despite the level of coordination and control that it requires, dialogue is the easiest way speakers possess to come to similar conceptualizations of the world. In this paper, we show how speakers align with each other by mutually controlling the flow of the dialogue and constantly monitoring their own and their interlocutors' way of representing information. Through examples of conversation, we introduce the notions of shared control, meta-representations of alignment and commentaries on alignment, and show how they support mutual understanding and the collaborative creation of abstract concepts. Indeed, whereas speakers can share similar representations of concrete concepts just by mutually attending to a tangible referent or by recalling it, they are likely to need more negotiation and mutual monitoring to build similar representations of abstract concepts. This article is part of the theme issue 'Concepts in interaction: social engagement and inner experiences'.
在对话中，说话者处理大量信息，相互插话，即时计划和调整自己的发言。尽管对话需要协调和控制，但它是说话者最容易达成对世界相似概念的方式。在本文中，我们通过展示说话者如何通过相互控制对话的流程并不断监测自己和对话者的信息表示方式来实现彼此协调。通过对话的例子，我们引入了共享控制、对齐的元表示和对齐的评论等概念，并展示了它们如何支持相互理解和抽象概念的协作创建。事实上，虽然说话者可以通过相互关注一个有形的指涉物或回忆它来共享具体概念的相似表示，但他们可能需要更多的协商和相互监控来构建抽象概念的相似表示。本文是主题为“互动中的概念：社会参与和内在体验”的一部分。
