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this paper investigates computer games and their presences in the current routines. it introduces this audio-visual medium itself, its outcomes and the effects of its appearance into the domain of our mental life. moreover, it presents a comprehensive historical analysis in the matters of games and computer sciences. its methodology is contained by social sciences methodology, literary theory, ...

This study examines prosodic correlates of the givenness of discourse entities in German radio news speech. The material comes from the Stuttgart Radio News Corpus. Both GToBI intonation labels and a Fujisaki-style parametrization of the intonation contour were examined. We find strong word-class specific accentuation defaults; the influence of entity status is rather small and varies with word...

Vol. 19, No. 3 2002 pp. 158–171 158 Alexithymia is a psychiatric term meaning lack of words for emotion (Sifneos, 1967) and it is a relatively recent term, having been coined in the late 1960s. The newness of the concept is reflected in the small number of well-validated assessment instruments in the area (Stephenson, 1996; Taylor, 1984) and the lack of research studies exploring the efficacy o...

Generating consumer acceptance for incrementally new food products remains a challenge. Drawing on analogical learning theory, we explore the combined effect of providing information about product’s closest referent (‘the product is like…’) and instrumental value store’s frontline employees (FLEs) as credible source this acceptance. Using context aquaculture, two consecutive experimental studie...