A conversation between people is to be interrupted by one of the interlocutors to ask for clarification 90 seconds. “What?” And “who?” These are the most common questions, revealed a study by the Dutch linguist Mark Dingemanse.
The study of misunderstandings in conversations between people was twelve countries conducted by Mark Dingemanse, a linguist at the Radboud University Nijmegen, and his international research team.
In previous language studies mostly looked at grammar, “he says in the Algemeen Dagblad . “So rather to words and phrases. What we have done is we rather focus on dialogue and conversation, which we believe is the home language. “
In addition, the Dutchman especially noticed that our language use and social. “We fire in a dialogue no tennis balls off, but are constantly test whether we understand each other. That makes us unique as people. Other species may also use a complex language, but the stop and repair a conversation occurs nowhere else.
Average to fall 90 seconds into a conversation breaks ‘huh?’ Or ‘who?’ . “And that requires a lot of people because they have to repeat their sense than ever. That’s irritating. That’s why our clarification questions are usually more specific and targeted. We try our interlocutor to make it as easy as possible. Often “yes” for an answer enough. An example? “You may as 70 per hour. ” Seventy?” “Yes.”
Those repairs in discussions occur everywhere, experienced Dingemanse. “Despite the language and cultural differences is the same everywhere.”
The research is published in the journal Plos One.
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