Why do people accommodate to each other’s linguistic behavior? Studies of natural interactions (Giles, Taylor & Bourhis, 1973) suggest that speakers accommodate to achieve interactional goals, influencing what their interlocutor thinks or feels about them. But is this the only reason speakers accommodate? In real-world conversations, interactional motivations are ubiquitous, making it difficult...

Gender stereotypes have endured despite substantial change in gender roles. Previous work has assessed how affect language production particular interactional contexts. Here, we communication biases where context was less specified: written texts to diffuse audiences. We used Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) computationally quantify the similarity meaning between gendered names and stereotype-lin...

This article examines first impressions through a discursive and interactional lens. Until now, social psychologists have studied first impressions in laboratory conditions, in isolation from their natural environment, thus overseeing their discursive roles as devices for managing situated interactional concerns. I examine fragments of text and talk in which individuals spontaneously invoke fir...

This book aims to investigate the features that are at the core of human interactions tomodel the involved emotional processes, in order to design anddevelop autonomous systems and algorithms able to detect early signs of changes, in moods and emotional states. The attention is focused on emotional social features and the human’s ability to decode and encode emotional social cues while interact...

Supervisors’ perceptions of how fairly they are treated by their own supervisors can influence their subordinates’ perceptions, attitudes, and behavior. We present a moderated mediation model that demonstrates how workgroup structure can enhance or constrain these effects. Results show supervisors’ perceptions of the fairness of the interactional treatment they receive relate to their subordina...

Abstract Interactional linguists are interested in ways which communicative resources emerge from interactional practice. This paper defines a place for the study of gesture within linguistics, conceived as ‘linguistics time’ ( Hopper, 2015 ). It shows how hand gestures certain kind – conceptual ‘hands-on’ instrumental actions, repeated and habitualized, taken to other contexts where they enabl...

Individuals may use both the content and the relational messages of interaction with their relational partners to make judgments about the nature of the relationship. Relational messages are imbedded in the context for the interaction as well as the interactional behaviors of the partners. Therefore, interactional behaviors of relational partners help to define the relationship. Interactional b...

While the use of sentence-final discourse particles (SFPs) is typically linked to specific interactional or social functions, their realization is also associated with particular positional and intonational requirements. This raises the question of whether the use of SFPs may be partly driven by the phonological characteristics of sentence-final contexts. In [1], we showed that Singapore Englis...

This study examines whether the perceived boundary between in-role and extra-role behaviors varies depending on workplace conditions, emphasizing how interactional justice influences an employee’s role definitions. We collect data through a questionnaire survey and adopt Tobit regressions for hypothesis testing. The study results indicate that perceived interactional justice enlarges the breadt...