会話システムにおける回避的行動に関する研究

抄録

　　In their examination of human communication from a pragmatic view, Watzlawick, et al. (1967) proposed that “a man who doesn't want to communicate needs to communicate that”. In short, one must communicate to others whether or not one has something to say. If you want to avoid communication with another, what do you do? The purpose of this study was to identify features of avoidance behavior in conversation, from the point of “management communication” (Hasegawa, et al., 1996). Ten undergraduate (female) pairs were assigned to either a “non-avoidance” or an “avoidance”. Each experimental condition was videotaped and analyzed. Results indicate that “gaze-avoidance” is very often used to avoid conversation as observed through a combination of behavioral indices and contexts. Implications for further research that considers differences between maintenance of conversational system and construction of intimacy and maintenance are discussed.