语义激活机制与会话持续

Semantic Activation Mechanism and Sustainment of Conversation

互动性是会话得以持续的一个根本因素。认知心理学中的语义激活理论认为,在语言使用过程中,语言主要起着激活信息的作用,而且这种信息激活具有强制、快速等特性。也就是说,谈话中话题的接续具有一种潜在的自动性。在闲聊这样一种轻松愉快、不需过多理性控制的谈话氛围里,谈话者可以信马由缰,任由话题跟着被激活的思绪游走,使谈话滔滔不绝地进行下去。在交际目的相对明确或交际结果有利害关系的谈话中,话轮的衔接受理性控制的成分要大很多。是否或如何接话茬,是一件很有策略的事情。

Interaction is a fundamental factor to the sustainment of a conversation. The Semantic Activation Theory in Cognitive Psychology maintains that the input of language mainly plays a role in activating stored information in one＇s mind, and this kind of information activation is compulsory and rapid. That is to say, people＇s responses to topics in a conversation are potentially automatic in a way. In casual conversations with the atmosphere light and pleasant, participants can follow freely whatever topics occurring to their minds, pushing the conversations further and further.But in conversations with more specified goals or more serious consequences, the responses to previous turns are more rationally controlled. Whether or how to take turns is a thing of tactics.