Discourse in instant messenger conversations (chats) with multiple participants is often composed of several intertwining threads. Some chat environments for Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) support and encourage the existence of parallel threads by providing explicit referencing facilities. The paper proposes a discourse model for such chats, based on Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogic...

Recognizing activities in social occasions plays an important role of building human social networks. For example, the recognition of social interactions could be of great help to determine whether any two attendees have the same interests in an academic conference or a cocktail party. Among the various types of social interactions, chatting with others is a significant indicator. Furthermore, ...

The current emphasis on higher order thinking skills (HOTS) has inspired many EFL educators to explore the impact of merging different pedagogical teaching and assessment strategies on the enhancement of thinking skills. Responding to such a growing need to investigate the effect of diverse teaching strategies on HOTS, the present study aimed to explore the impact of the integration of portfoli...

The “visionary leader” narrative and Performance Mindset that predominate in theories and practices of change leadership are no longer effective in an environment of multi-dimensional diversity marked by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Developments over the past thirty years in organization development theory and practice, which have led to what we call Dialogic Organization...

The linguistic-communicative paradigm offers some interesting perspectives in a context where the perception of patient needs is considered a critical step in high-quality care. This study describes healthcare organizations as linguistic communities based on the conceptual framework of Habermas' communicative action theory. Four communicative models are present in healthcare settings: objectify...

What does it take to argue well? The goal of this series of studies was to better understand the cognitive skills entailed in argument, and their course of development, isolated from the verbal and social demands that argumentive discourse also entails. Findings indicated that young adolescents are less able than adults to coordinate attention to both positions in an argument, an agerelated pat...

We consider a " polarized " version of bi-intuitionistic logic [9, 7, 10, 11] as a logic of assertions and hypotheses and show that it supports a " rich proof theory " and an interesting categorical interpretation, unlike the standard approach of C. Rauszer's Heyting-Brouwer logic [48, 49], whose categorical models are all partial orders by Crolard's theorem [19]. We show that P. A.Mellì es not...