Mobile phone use in cars is a highly debated issue. Legislation and policy discussions flourish in many countries and coincide with an increased effort in design of new in-car technologies. The studies which influence policy and design decisions use experimental approaches and are based on a cognitive perspective. In this paper, we discuss why this is a problematic approach. Further, we provide...

Aceptado: 05/12/2013 The objective of this study is to show how conversation analysis, a sociological discipline, approaches the study of social institutions. Social institutions are conceived as the crystallization of members’ communicative, interactional practices. Two institutional domains—psychiatric interviews and broadcast news interviews —and a specific interactional practice—‘formulatio...

This paper explores durational aspects of pauses, gaps and overlaps in three different conversational corpora with a view to challenge claims about precision timing in turn-taking. Distributions of pause, gap and overlap durations in conversations are presented, and methodological issues regarding the statistical treatment of such distributions are discussed. The results are related to publishe...

Interactional positioning has to do with how people express their attitudes and dispositions others (stance) signal they wish relate other participants in the discourse (engagement). These are closely connected extent which impoliteness is expressed resources strategies employed. This study investigates interactional two Nigerian political discussion sites, Nairaland Forum Gistmania. The findin...

To present a skillfully written abstract, an author should apply some strategies. One of them is the application Metadiscourse Markers, which provides readers with linguistic features that will help quickly get gist entire research. Studies have examined metadiscourse markers in abstracts theses and published article journals by Indonesian, but only few used corpus-based approach analyzed error...

Abstract There is very little research on the use of metadiscourse markers in abstracts across different disciplines (especially a single study) undergraduates as novice researchers, and qualitative has been done topic EFL ESL contexts altogether. Thus, purpose this study to examine undergraduates’ social sciences three (English Language Communication, Mass Psychology) Faculty Social Sciences L...

Metadiscourse markers are analyzed in many different languages detail. This study focuses on two interactional metadiscourse markers: attitude and self-mentions Turkish RA abstracts. In the study, scientific area, namely social sciences natural compared regarding use of There questions to answer. The first one is related features abstracts defined literature. Since as an objective summery artic...

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...