When people interact to establish shared symbols for novel objects or concepts, they often rely on multiple communicative modalities as well alignment (i.e., cross-participant repetition of behavior). Yet these interactional resources have rarely been studied together, so little is known about if and how combine in achieve joint reference. To investigate this, we systematically track the emerge...

Background and Objectives: Motivated employees are probably the most valuable resource of the contemporary organizations. Evidence shows the significant impact of perceived organizational justice on the attitudes of employees, including their trust. To further investigate the issue in the context of health organizations, this study aimed to explore the relationship between perceived organizatio...

this study investigated two major types of metadiscourse markers as used in typical sales contracts, written by english natives and iranian non-natives. in so doing, 60 sales contracts were selected, 30 written by native english and 30 by iranian non-natives. based on hyland and tse’s taxonomy, the contracts were codified and classified in terms of the frequency and percentage of the interactiv...

This paper documents the naturally occurring ways in which very young children encounter opportunities for inquiry in their everyday lives. Understanding these early childhood practices is a necessary first step in drawing on these practices as resources for science inquiry learning. Using approximately 35 hours of interactional video data of a twoyear-old girl in home and preschool settings, I...