I have elsewhere argued (Ariel, 2002) against the assumption that we can identify one literal meaning per sentence. Instead, I have suggested that there are (at least) three types of minimal meanings, each differently motivated. One implicit motivation behind the classical definition of literal meaning (Grice’s ‘what is said’) is a wish to capture the core content of sentences. I here examine d...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate interactional effects of patient-centered interviewing (PCI) compared to isolated clinician-centered interviewing (CCI). METHODS We conducted a pilot study comparing PCI (N=4) to CCI (N=4) for simulated new-patient visits. We rated interviews independently and measured patient satisfaction with the interaction via a validated questionnaire. We conducted interactional so...

Text-only CMC has been claimed to be interactionally incoherent due to limitations imposed by messaging systems on turn-taking and reference, yet its popularity continues to grow. In an attempt to resolve this apparent paradox, this study evaluates the coherence of computermediated interaction by surveying research on cross-turn coherence. The results reveal a high degree of disrupted adjacency...

Interactional quality has been shown to enhance learning during book reading and play, but has not been examined during touch screen use. Learning to apply knowledge from a touch screen is complex for infants because it involves transfer of learning between a two-dimensional (2D) screen and three-dimensional (3D) object in the physical world. This study uses a touch screen procedure to examine ...

When people interact to establish shared symbols for novel objects or concepts, they often rely on multiple communicative modalities as well alignment (i.e., cross-participant repetition of behavior). Yet these interactional resources have rarely been studied together, so little is known about if and how combine in achieve joint reference. To investigate this, we systematically track the emerge...

This article suggests that there are systematic ways in which the identity of ‘self’, as created and performed through first-person markers, can be made relevant consequential particular episodes interaction. More specifically, study looks at generalizations people present about themselves local interactional contexts: displays types they always or never behave (‘I am this kind person’, ‘I do t...

Abstract Format ties, “partial repetitions of prior talk” ( Goodwin & 1987 , p. 207), are interesting from an interactional perspective with respect to their functions relating to, for example, (dis-) agreement/alignment or humour, and scholars Language Variation Change because they offer uniquely comparable phonological contexts in naturalistic speech. The present paper investigates the di...

I n the paper, we propose a vision-based system for adaptively inferring the interactional intention of a person coming close to a robot, which plays an important role i n the succeeding stage of human/robot cooperative operations typically i n production lines. It is naturally supposed that the interactional intention of a person induces her action of approaching to the robot and touchiny it. ...

While ‘voice’ is frequently invoked in discussions of pupils’ agency and empowerment, less attention has been paid to the dialogic dynamics of children’s voices and the sociocultural features shaping their emergence. Drawing on linguistic ethnographic research involving recent recordings of ten and eleven year-old children’s spoken language experience across the school day, this article examine...