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Production of Referring Expressions: the Case of Color Overspecification การใช้คำอ้างอิง: กรณีการใช้คาบรรยายสีที่เกินความจำเป็น |
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| Creator | Jeeranan Arden |
| Title | Production of Referring Expressions: the Case of Color Overspecification การใช้คำอ้างอิง: กรณีการใช้คาบรรยายสีที่เกินความจำเป็น |
| Publisher | สถาบันภาษา จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย |
| Publication Year | 2563 |
| Journal Title | วารสารภาษาปริทัศน์ |
| Journal Vol. | 35 |
| Page no. | 116-144 |
| Keyword | Reference Production, Referring Expressions, Color terms, ColorOverspecification, Overspecification |
| URL Website | http://www.culi.chula.ac.th/Publicationsonline |
| Website title | Chulalongkorn University Language Institute |
| ISSN | 2286-9972 |
| Abstract | Prior investigations (e.g., Davis & Katsos, 2009; Engelhardt et al., 2006;Rubio-Fern ndez, 2016) suggest that native speakers of English tend to beoverspecified in their referring expressions by including unnecessary adjectivalmodifiers that do not serve to differentiate the intended referent from otherobjects in the context, and the most redundantly provided modifiers havebeen found to be color terms. The phenomenon is known as coloroverspecification, and contradicts the Maxim of Quantity (Grice, 1975), whichstates that speakers are expected to provide sufficient information but nomore than is necessary for their interlocutors. This study was conducted onThai EFL speakers to examine whether the phenomenon also occurs in EFLsettings. The study examined the participants on their referring expressions inwhich objects in comparison were in monochrome and in polychrome. Theexperimental items were adapted from the study of Rubio-Fern ndez in 2016as they could yield findings concerning the phenomenon. The findingsrevealed that the majority of participants produced overspecified referringexpressions concerning color terms in the two experimental conditions. They,however, did it significantly more often when objects in the context were inpolychrome. This suggested that shades of color play a role in referenceproduction as well. The findings also revealed underlying factors that couldinfluence the participants? referring expressions. Overall, what is noteworthy isthat the results of the study have proven that color overspecification occursnot only to native speakers but also to EFL speakers. |
