Bias in perspective-taking during reading: Adjusting the knowledge of characters  

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Moreno-Rios, Sergio

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 43 no. 07 (2011), page 1977–1986.
Topik: Perspective-taking Egocentrism Reading comprehension PsycINFO classification: 2340
Fulltext: Moreno-Rios_S.pdf (135.47KB)

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Readers have to track the knowledge of every character in a story. Sometimes errors occur and readers attribute their own privileged knowledge to a character. Keysar (1994) studied this phenomenon in a communicative context. The task included stories in which one character writes an ambiguous message to another. Participants seemed to attribute the knowledge owned only by the writer character to the addressee of the message. One possible explanation for this phenomenon was based on the assumption that readers believe characters will strive to be cooperative: the message is ambiguous only for the external reader, while for the addressee it is informative enough, given their common knowledge. This explanation is tested in two experiments by introducing additional characters to the story: a third participant who had the privileged information but did not participate in the relevant communicative act and an accidental reader who interpreted the message. The illusory transparency in the intention to communicate persists but with important restrictions. The results are discussed following the alternative explanations given in the literature of perspective-taking.

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