Despite the extensive research on negotiation of meaning (NoM) using unfocused tasks, to our knowledge no study portrays what extent NoM contributes learners’ language accuracy, grammar, and vocabulary, in particular, a focused task. Therefore, this set out obtain in-depth information about contribution accuracy when learners were assigned engage task discussion. The participants, treated as th...

This article aims at showing that the meaning of ‘presence’ is closely linked to the concept we have of reality, in particular, to the ontology which we more or less explicitly adopt, and that different ontological positions generate different definitions of ‘presence’, ‘telepresence’ and ‘virtual presence’. This leads us to propose a ‘cultural’ concept of presence as a social construction, bas...

We propose a framework to compute the utility of a proposal w.r.t. a preference set in a negotiation process. In particular, we refer to preferences expressed as weighted formulas in a decidable fragment of First-order Logic. Specifically, we refer to expressive Description Logics (DL) endowed with disjunction. DLs offer expressivity advantages over propositional representations, and allow us t...

Discourse analysis is paramount in the negotiation and construction of meaning of the social world. Discursive psychologists believe that truth is a discursive construction and that the world can be represented in an unlimited number of ways. This paper discusses the importance of context and culture in discursive interactions. The paper discusses knowledge as situated and contingent and thus a...

In this article, focus is on students’ oral production in two classrooms Swedish for immigrants (SFI). The study focuses practices with interaction patterns where students are involved negotiation of meaning. Theoretical basis the importance interpersonal language development, a use varied speaker roles and speech actions. Data were obtained through observations, field notes, audio video record...

This article places its attention on how the spatial boundaries, practices, and separations—as structured by whiteness—impact contestation negotiation of meaning-making processes in production consumption NASCAR space(s) for Black fans. It was through that vantage point participants demonstrated a nuanced understanding whiteness, particularly an awareness as White space, to effectively navigate...

Human-agent negotiation is very important and highly complex task in electronic business negotiation. A hybrid model has been proposed to enable e-negotiation between human and software agents. In this model a human interacts with an intelligent software agent through exchange of messages to reach on an agreement. In this paper, we present a content level ontology by conceptualizing nine types ...