The article explores aspects of the role of prosody as a contextualization cue in aphasic conversation through auditory and acoustic analysis of an aphasic speaker's use of pitch variation in responses to closed yes/no-requests. The results reveal two prosodic realizations of 'yes' and 'no' contextualizing different kinds of responses: a flat realization with no prolongation and minimal pauses,...

Verbal interaction among humans is a dazzlingly complex process, requiring integration of a number of cognitive competences like the faculty of language, semantic memory, scene understanding, Theory of Mind, interactional alignment, cultural knowledge, and more (Levinson 2006). Most researchers in the fields of computational linguistics and human-robot interaction (HRI) believe that we are stil...

Traumatization of self-processes as a consequence of acts of war is not only determined by the content and number of traumatic experiences, but also, to a large extent by factors related to posttraumatic socioeconomic, environmental, and psychosocial interactions, À model is presented to describe posttraumatic adaptation of war-traumatized selves according to the characteristics of the individu...

One of the central assumptions of Kohlberg's theory of moral development--that moral judgment is organized in structures of the whole--was examined. Thirty men and 30 women were given 2 dilemmas from Kohlberg's Moral Judgment Interview, a 3rd involving prosocial behavior, and a 4th involving impaired driving. Half the Ss responded to the prosocial and impaired-driving dilemmas from the perspect...

Juxtaposing symbolic interactionist and postmodern interpretations of cyberself-ing, I bring data to bear on the tensions between these two theoretical stances. I argue that postmodernist accounts are no longer tenable; such studies were based on multi-user domains (MUDs), but generalized to cyberspace. I examine the evolving internet population, which has reached a critical mass of the America...

This study explored the challenges that undergraduate tertiary students encounter in development of communicative competence skills three selected institutions Lesotho. Adopting qualitative approach, employed a case design for data collection strategies which included face-to-face interviews with lecturers (n=11), focus group discussions (n=100) as well classroom observations (n=2). The finding...

Based on the interactional translation model, this paper discusses role of translator’s competence in success for business. Via complex analysis translations advertising texts as discourse acts that are pragmatically oriented and relatively uniform their aims, authors establish an extralingual criterion measuring quality – ability to satisfy same cognitive/communicative needs exert influence so...

This study explored the relation between need supportive teaching and early adolescents’ engagement in moment-to-moment interactions development of interactional patterns over time. A single case was conducted on one teacher her eighth grade classroom, using classroom video observations evenly spread course school year. Multilevel State Space Grid analyses showed that what did (in terms support...

The authors investigated the relationship between organizational justice and organizational retaliation behavior—adverse reactions to perceived unfairness by disgruntled employees toward their employer—in a sample of 240 manufacturing employees. Distributive, procedural, and interactional justice interacted to predict organizational retaliation behavior. A relation between distributive justice ...

Changes in relatives' affective attitudes are important contributors to the impact of family psychoeducational programmes on the course of schizophrenia. It remains unclear whether similar changes occur in the interactional style of schizophrenic patients participating in psychoeducational treatment. This study examined changes in the interactional style (coping style) of 33 schizophrenic patie...