“We-Mode” in verbal communication: Its role and potential

Abstract

By examining the communication scenes that occur between people, we consider the nature of we-mode that occurs in individual-to-individual interactions. First, we consider the basis of we-mode emergence from the perspective of speech acts and various communicative functions within the framework of verbal communication. Next, we examine the psycholinguistic models of verbal communication, referring to Levelt (1989), in order to describe the mechanisms of dialogue. Subsequently, we focus on the interactive alignment found in dialogue as a form of we-mode that arises in verbal communication and consider we-mode by examining the phenomenon of linguistic priming. In addition, after investigating whether this linguistic priming arises in communication between learners of foreign languages, as well as between native speakers, we refer to various foreign language teaching methodologies and second language acquisition theories to consider how communication has been viewed in foreign language education in the past and attempt to understand the identity and role of we-mode in verbal communication and foreign language acquisition.”