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Accurate Referential Communication and its Relation with Private and Social Speech in a Naturalistic Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2014

Dolors Girbau  and
Humbert Boada
Dolors Girbau*
Affiliation:
Jaume I University
Humbert Boada
Affiliation:
University of Barcelona
*
Address all correspondence to: Dolors Girbau, Department of Basic Psychology, University Jaume I, Campus Riu Sec, 12080 Castelló.Spain. E-mail address: girbau@psb.uji.es
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Abstract

Research into human communication has been grouped under two traditions: referential and sociolinguistic. The study of a communication behavior simultaneously from both paradigms appears to be absent. Basically, this paper analyzes the use of private and social speech, through both a referential task (Word Pairs) and a naturalistic dyadic setting (Lego-set) administered to a sample of 64 children from grades 3 and 5. All children, of 8 and 10 years of age, used speech that was not adapted to the decoder, and thus ineffective for interpersonal communication, in both referential and sociolinguistic communication. Pairs of high-skill referential encoders used significantly more task-relevant social speech, that is, cognitively more complex, than did low-skill dyads in the naturalistic context. High-skill referential encoder dyads showed a trend to produce more inaudible private speech than did low-skill ones during spontaneous communication. Gender did not affect the results.

La investigación sobre comunicación humana se agrupa entorno a dos tradiciones: referencial y sociolingüística. Al parecer nunca se ha estudiado una conducta comunicativa simultáneamente desde ambos paradigmas. Básicamente este artículo analiza el uso del lenguaje privado y social, mediante una tarea referencial (Pares de Palabras) y una situación natural diádica (Lego), en una muestra de 64 niños/as de tercer y quinto cursos de primaria. Todos los niños/as de 8 y 10 años de edad produjeron un tipo de lenguaje no adaptado al descodificador, o sea ineficaz para la comunicación interpersonal, tanto en la comunicación referencial como en la sociolingüística. Las díadas formadas por los mejores codificadores referenciales usaron significativamente más lenguaje social pertinente a la tarea, o sea cognitivamente más complejo, que las díadas peores, en el contexto natural de comunicación espontánea. Las díadas de mejores codificadores referenciales mostraron una tendencia a producir más lenguaje privado inaudible que las peores, durante la comunicación espontánea. La variable sexo no influyó significativamente en los resultados.

Keywords

private speechsocial speechreferential communicationhabla privadohabla socialcomunicación referencial
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Articles
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The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , November 2004 , pp. 81 - 92
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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