Confrontational communicative strategies in dramaturgy: classics vs modernity

Sustainable Development and Modernity: Resolving Tension through Communicative Sustainability

The rise of the discourse of sustainable development has been fraught with conflict. Initial conceptual ambiguities have led to a conflictual understanding of the meaning of sustainable development, and the basis for action that this understanding implies. This thesis employs a Habermasian analytical framework to assess the competing views on the relationship between sustainable development and...

Early Development of Multimodal Communicative Strategies

From Communicative Strategies to Cognitive Modelling

The question addressed in this paper is what we can learn from natural language interaction between humans and robots for modelling the robot’s cognitive structure. Experiments were carried out which show which communicative strategies human users employ in the interaction with an artificial communication partner. The communicative strategies found in the interaction show a complex mental model...

Atrocities and Confrontational Tension

This paper presents an analysis of video-recordings and other micro-level data of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia-and-Herzegovina. It focuses on the sequential unfolding of micro-interactions and emotional dynamics before, and over the course of the atrocity. The paper argues that massacres have a pattern of situational emergence: local emotional dynamics are crucial to explain where and...

Classics in Rhinology