metadiscourse is a widely used term in current discourse analysis and language education, referring to an interesting, and relatively new approach to conceptualizing interaction between text producers and their texts and between text producers and users. despite the growing importance of the term, however, it is often understood in different ways and used to refer to different aspects of langua...

Generally, human resources play an important role in manufacturing systems as they can affect the work environment. One of the most important factors affecting the human resources is being an interactional interest among the workers in the workshops. If the workers in a manufacturing cell have the highest surface of the interactional interest level, it causes a significant raise in coordination...

The focus of this study is interaction during speech and language intervention in children with phonological impairment. Interactional patterns between children and therapists in two different settings are compared; on the one hand ‘tabletop’ phonological intervention and, on the other hand, computer-assisted phonological intervention. The interactions are compared in terms of interactional dom...

Consonants in word onsets are more often than other consonants involved in interactional speech errors [8] [9]. This has been explained from the process of speech preparation [9] or from the higher degree of activation of initial versus other consonants [2], or from phonotactic constraints on speech errors [6]. Here we report a tongue-twister experiment showing (a) that words in each other’s im...

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