The present study examines the brain-level representation and composition of meaning in scalar quantifiers (e.g., some), which have both a semantic meaning (at least one) and a pragmatic meaning (not all). We adopted a picture-sentence verification design to examine event-related potential (ERP) effects of reading infelicitous quantifiers for which the semantic meaning was correct with respect ...

negotiation, as an interactional strategy and proactive focus on form (fof) have received increased attention in second language research. the combination of negotiation and proactive fof, however, has not been examined in relation to l2 vocabulary learning. to address this gap, the present study investigated how the amount of negotiation and proactive fof impacted learners’ vocabulary knowledg...

A key issue in Distributed Applications, that widely use Information Agents for implementing several typologies of services, is that of making reciprocally understandable the meaning of terms contained in the exchanged messages, in those cases where agents use different, heterogeneous ontologies. A possible way for facing this issue is offered by the semantic negotiation, a framework in which a...

This paper reports findings from an exploratory outcome study of the Program for Young Negotiators training model with early adolescents in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Youth between the ages of 10 and 15 years (135 females, 70 males) were assessed before and after negotiation training, based on two measures of psychosocial attitudes and behavior. On the Five Factor Negotiation Scale (Nakkula & Nik...

Abstract The outbreak of COVID-19 led to the replacement many traditional classroom teaching and learning activities with online interactions through synchronous audio or video conferencing tools. Technically, key difference between is latter’s use a webcam. Therefore, this study aims investigate webcam’s role in computer-mediated communication (SCMC). Negotiation for meaning episodes, which in...

Knowledge management and its features should be considered as crucial assets in knowledge-critical organizations, such as innovative manufacturing firms, research centres, universities, service companies, etc. Traditional knowledge management approaches are often aimed at unveiling, distributing and sharing knowledge as a stable and standardized result of meaning negotiation and coordination pr...