Twitter (and other micro blogging services) combine the flexibility and immediacy of bilateral telephone SMS with the multilateral networking capacities of the Web 2.0. In contrast to Blogs, discussion fora and Social Network Sites, Twitter allows online communication characterized by asymmetric leadership-follower relationships, remoteness of sender identity, metacommunicative signaling functi...

This paper presents examples in which hlk ‘walk, go’ and ʔth ‘come’ appear multi-verb constructions conforming to the definition of asymmetrical serial verb (SVCs). In these constructions, do not be used with their concrete lexical senses as verbs constituting predicate a separate clause. Rather, they are found V1 position minor contributing an aspectual nuance immediacy major V2 position. Broa...

OBJECTIVES This review is intended to 1) describe the construct of immediacy by analyzing how immediacy is used in social relational research and 2) discuss how immediacy behaviors can be incorporated into patient-provider interventions aimed at supporting patients' medication management. METHODS A literature search was conducted using Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature ...

The authors examined immediacy (i.e., discussions about the here-and-now therapeutic relationship) in a 12-session case of individual interpersonal psychotherapy. Therapist immediacy during immediacy events most often focused on parallels between external relationships and the therapy relationship, encouraging expression of immediate feelings, processing termination, therapist expressing disapp...

This paper reviews Immediacy Theory which posits a mechanism making schizophrenic behavior preponderantly controlled by stimuli immediate in the patient’s environment. It reviewed all studies of schizophrenia in the 2003 year of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Of those 12 studies, nine were found to confirm that mechanism and three not to be relevant.

This paper presents material in support of the position that risk management in oil and gas (O&G) production is characterized by a loss of immediacy to the production process. We illustrate how loss of immediacy is an outcome of the O&G information infrastructure's mediation of the production process, and how engineers cope with the loss of immediacy when managing risk situations.

Drawing on the rhetorical/relational goal theory, this study examined role of instructor clarity and non-verbal immediacy in affective learning through mediation understanding. Data were gathered close-ended questionnaires from 756 Chinese 715 Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) students, factor structure cross-cultural validity which supported via confirmatory analysis testing measurem...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendapatkan gambaran tentang teacher immediacy dalam pembelajaran daring. Teacher merupakan penggunaan simbol verbal dan nonverbal mendekatkan jarak fisik psikologis guru siswa. Perilaku dapat meningkatkan motivasi belajar menggunakan metode campuran dengan pengambilan data secara survey Focus Group Discussion terhadap SMA terpilih muntistage random sampling di su...