Understanding Everyday Communicative Interactions

Author : Julie A. Hengst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000053647

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Understanding Everyday Communicative Interactions by Julie A. Hengst Pdf

Understanding Everyday Communicative Interactions is a unique text that uses a situated discourse analysis (SDA) framework to examine basic human communication and the interactions of those with communicative disorders in everyday and clinical settings. The book introduces SDA as a theoretical and empirical approach for examining the complexities of communicative interaction. It explores how people collaborate in everyday contexts to communicate successfully and how they learn to do so. From close analysis of a pretend game played by two children and their father to an observation of a man with aphasia and his family at a football match, the present volume offers rich portraits of communicative lives and illustrates the applications of SDA. The final part of the book uses SDA methods to demonstrate how clinicians can function as communication partners even during assessments and can design rich communicative environments for therapeutic interventions. In explaining the SDA framework and equipping readers with the tools to understand the nature of human communication, this sophisticated and engaging book will be an essential reference for students, researchers, and clinicians in communication sciences and disorders.

Author : Remus Fischer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1639875514

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Understanding Everyday Communicative Interactions by Remus Fischer Pdf

Communicative interactions are interactive processes that exist among members of a group. These are the ways in which people act with and react to other people. Everyday communicative interactions are a fundamental feature of social life. Knowledge is imparted through the social act of gesture-response in this process. Communicative interactions result in continuity and have the potential for transforming the individual or the group. Identity is reinforced, shaped, and sometimes transformed through everyday social interactions. This book provides significant information of this discipline to help develop a good understanding of everyday communicative interactions. The topics covered herein deal with the core subjects of this discipline. This book, with its detailed analyses and data, will prove immensely beneficial to professionals and students involved in this area at various levels.

Author : Colin B. Grant
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027253583

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Rethinking Communicative Interaction by Colin B. Grant Pdf

From government eavesdropping to Internet crime, reality TV to computer-mediated communication and mobile telephones, the face of communication has fundamentally changed. The contingencies and complexities of communication can be witnessed in old and new media, in changing patterns of face-to-face interactions and the pluralization of the self and blurring of the distinction between the real and virtual. To date, theories of interaction have been slow to conceptualize communication in terms of its instabilities. Social communication models remain heavily indebted to an interaction paradigm which is often intuitive, epistemologically conservative and even a-critical. By contrast, an interdisciplinary programme in communication covers a complex field which requires the broadest possible range of approaches beyond current disciplinary confines. This collection seeks to examine some of the implications for our understanding of interaction when communication is conceptualized as a complex uncertainty.

Author : Robert B. Arundale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190210205

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Communicating & Relating by Robert B. Arundale Pdf

Communicating & Relating offers an account of how relating with one another emerges in communicating in everyday interacting. Prior work has indicated that human relationships arise in human communicating, and some studies have made arguments for why that is the case. Communicating & Relating moves beyond this work to offer an account of how both relating and face emerge in everyday talk and conduct: what comprises human communicating, what defines human social systems, how the social and the individual are linked in human life, and what comprises human relating and face. Part 1 develops the Conjoint Co-constituting Model of Communicating to address the question "How do participants constitute turns, actions, and meanings in everyday interacting?" Part 2 argues that the processes of constituting what is known cross-culturally as "face" are the processes of constituting relating, and develops Face Constituting Theory to address the question "How do participants constitute relating in everyday interacting?" The answers to both questions are grounded in evidence from everyday talk and conduct. Like other volumes in the Foundations of Human Interaction series, Communicating & Relating offers new perspectives and new research on communicative interaction and on human relationships as key elements of human sociality.

Author : Judith Holler,Kobin H. Kendrick,Marisa Casillas
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Conversation
ISBN : 9782889198252

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Turn-taking in human communicative interaction by Judith Holler,Kobin H. Kendrick,Marisa Casillas Pdf

The core use of language is in face-to-face conversation. This is characterized by rapid turn-taking. This turn-taking poses a number central puzzles for the psychology of language. Consider, for example, that in large corpora the gap between turns is on the order of 100 to 300 ms, but the latencies involved in language production require minimally between 600 ms (for a single word) or 1500 ms (for as simple sentence). This implies that participants in conversation are predicting the ends of the incoming turn and preparing in advance. But how is this done? What aspects of this prediction are done when? What happens when the prediction is wrong? What stops participants coming in too early? If the system is running on prediction, why is there consistently a mode of 100 to 300 ms in response time? The timing puzzle raises further puzzles: it seems that comprehension must run parallel with the preparation for production, but it has been presumed that there are strict cognitive limitations on more than one central process running at a time. How is this bottleneck overcome? Far from being 'easy' as some psychologists have suggested, conversation may be one of the most demanding cognitive tasks in our everyday lives. Further questions naturally arise: how do children learn to master this demanding task, and what is the developmental trajectory in this domain? Research shows that aspects of turn-taking, such as its timing, are remarkably stable across languages and cultures, but the word order of languages varies enormously. How then does prediction of the incoming turn work when the verb (often the informational nugget in a clause) is at the end? Conversely, how can production work fast enough in languages that have the verb at the beginning, thereby requiring early planning of the whole clause? What happens when one changes modality, as in sign languages – with the loss of channel constraints is turn-taking much freer? And what about face-to-face communication amongst hearing individuals – do gestures, gaze, and other body behaviors facilitate turn-taking? One can also ask the phylogenetic question: how did such a system evolve? There seem to be parallels (analogies) in duetting bird species, and in a variety of monkey species, but there is little evidence of anything like this among the great apes. All this constitutes a neglected set of problems at the heart of the psychology of language and of the language sciences. This Research Topic contributes to advancing our understanding of these problems by summarizing recent work from psycholinguists, developmental psychologists, students of dialog and conversation analysis, linguists, phoneticians, and comparative ethologists.

Author : Nancy Butterfield,Michael Arthur-Kelly
Publisher : MacLennan & Petty
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Medical
ISBN : UVA:X004260172

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Partners in Everyday Communicative Exchanges by Nancy Butterfield,Michael Arthur-Kelly Pdf

Using assessment and intervention techniques during naturally occurring opportunities for interaction improves communication with people who have severe disabilities. Practical forms, examples, and case studies accompany step-by-step guidelines that help service providers, speech-language pathologists, and family members enrich their day-to-day exchanges with the people they serve and care for.

Author : Rafał Jończyk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319476353

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Affect-Language Interactions in Native and Non-Native English Speakers by Rafał Jończyk Pdf

This volume provides an up-to-date and evaluative review of theoretical and empirical stances on emotion and its close interaction with language and cognition in monolingual and bilingual individuals. Importantly, it presents a novel methodological approach that takes into account contextual information and hence goes beyond the reductionist approach to affective language that has dominated contemporary research. Owing to this pragmatic approach, the book presents brand new findings in the field of bilingualism and affect and offers the first neurocognitive interpretation of findings reported in clinical and introspective studies in bilingualism. This not only represents an invaluable contribution to the literature, but may also constitute a breakthrough in the investigation of the worldwide phenomenon of bilingualism. Beginning with a thorough review of the history and current state of affective research and its relation to language, spanning philosophical, psychological, neuroscientific, and linguistic perspectives, the volume then proceeds to explore affect manifestation using neuropragmatic methods in monolingual and bilingual individuals. In doing so, it brings together findings from clinical and introspective studies in bilingualism with cognitive, psychophysiological and neuroimaging paradigms. By combining conceptual understanding and methodological expertise from many disciplines, this volume provides a comprehensive picture of the dynamic interactions between contextual and affective information in the language domain. Thus, Affect-Language Interactions in Native and Non-Native English Speakers: A Neuropragmatic Perspective fosters a pragmatic approach to research on affective language processing in monolingual and bilingual population, one that builds bridges across disciplines and sparks important new questions in the cognitive neuroscience of bi- and multilingualism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Boyer Educational Resources
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780958539555

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Understanding Everyday Australian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher M. Hayre,Dave Muller,Marcia Scherer
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351032179

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Everyday Technologies in Healthcare by Christopher M. Hayre,Dave Muller,Marcia Scherer Pdf

This book examines the role of everyday technology throughout the life cycle in order to demonstrate the wide acceptance and impact of everyday technology and how it is facilitating both practitioners and patients in contemporary practices. In response, then, this text speaks to a number of audiences. Students writing for undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations/proposals will find the array of works insightful, supported with a vast number of references signposting to key texts. For academics, practitioners and prospective researchers this text offers key empirical and methodological insight that can help focus and uncover originality in their own field. We anticipate that readers will find the collection of empirical examples useful for informing their own work, but also, it attempts to ignite new discussions and arguments regarding the application and use of everyday technology for enhancing health internationally. Explores the multifaceted use and application of each ‘everyday technology’ that impact on diagnosis, treatment and management of individuals. Examines an array of everyday technologies and how these that can either enhance and/or hinder patient/service user outcomes i.e. handheld devices, computer workstations, gamification and artificial intelligence. Discusses technologies that are intended to facilitate patient diagnosis, practitioner-patient relations, within an array of health contexts. Provides readers with an overview with future direction of everyday technologies and its limitations.

Author : Karen Tracy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136691126

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Understanding Face-to-face Interaction by Karen Tracy Pdf

Challenging current work in communication and social psychology that assumes face-to-face interaction can be adequately understood without attending to discourse expression, this volume examines how people's goals, concerns, and intentions can be related to discourse expression. The text discusses discourse-goal linkages in specific face-to-face encounters such as courtroom exchanges, marital counseling, and intellectual discussions, as well as in more general theoretical dilemmas. Because it poses a new set of questions about social actors' motivations and pre-interactional goals, this volume offers a new direction for discourse study -- one that seriously considers the thinking and strategy involved in human communication.

Author : Ray Wilkinson,John P. Rae,Gitte Rasmussen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030287993

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Atypical Interaction by Ray Wilkinson,John P. Rae,Gitte Rasmussen Pdf

Atypical Interaction presents a state-of-the-art overview of research which uses conversation analysis to explore how communicative impairments impact on conversation and other forms of talk and social interaction. Although the majority of people use spoken language unproblematically in social interaction, many individuals have an atypical capacity for communication. The first collection of its kind, this book examines a wide range of conditions where the communication of children or adults is atypical, including autism spectrum disorder, dementia, stammering, hearing impairment, schizophrenia, dysarthria and aphasia. By analyzing recordings of real-life interactions, the collection highlights not only the communication difficulties and challenges faced by atypical communicators and their interlocutors in everyday life, but also the competences and often novel forms of communication displayed. With fourteen empirical chapters from leading scholars in the field and an introductory chapter which provides a background to conversation analysis and its application to the study of atypical interactions, the collection will be an invaluable resource for students, practitioners such as speech and language therapists, and researchers with an interest in human communication, communication diversity and disorder.

Author : Sigrid Norris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134333875

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Analyzing Multimodal Interaction by Sigrid Norris Pdf

A practical guide to understanding and investigating the multiple modes of communication, verbal and non-verbal. Sets out clear methodology to help readers conduct their own analysis and includes many real examples.

Author : Svenja Adolphs,Dawn Knight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000049725

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The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities by Svenja Adolphs,Dawn Knight Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities serves as a reference point for key developments related to the ways in which the digital turn has shaped the study of the English language and of how the resulting methodological approaches have permeated other disciplines. It draws on modern linguistics and discourse analysis for its analytical methods and applies these approaches to the exploration and theorisation of issues within the humanities. Divided into three sections, this handbook covers: sources and corpora; analytical approaches; English language at the interface with other areas of research in the digital humanities. In covering these areas, more traditional approaches and methodologies in the humanities are recast and research challenges are re-framed through the lens of the digital. The essays in this volume highlight the opportunities for new questions to be asked and long-standing questions to be reconsidered when drawing on the digital in humanities research. This is a ground-breaking collection of essays offering incisive and essential reading for anyone with an interest in the English language and digital humanities.

Author : Dr Gary Ansdell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781472405715

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How Music Helps in Music Therapy and Everyday Life by Dr Gary Ansdell Pdf

Why is music so important to most of us? How does music help us both in our everyday lives, and in the more specialist context of music therapy? This book suggests a new way of approaching these topical questions, drawing from Ansdell's long experience as a music therapist, and from the latest thinking on music in everyday life. Vibrant and moving examples from music therapy situations are twinned with the stories of 'ordinary' people who describe how music helps them within their everyday lives. Together this complementary material leads Ansdell to present a new interdisciplinary framework showing how musical experiences can help all of us build and negotiate identities, make intimate non-verbal relationships, belong together in community, and find moments of transcendence and meaning. How Music Helps is not just a book about music therapy. It has the more ambitious aim to promote (from a music therapist's perspective) a better understanding of 'music and change' in our personal and social life. Ansdell's theoretical synthesis links the tradition of Nordoff-Robbins music therapy and its recent developments in Community Music Therapy to contemporary music sociology and music studies. This book will be relevant to practitioners, academics, and researchers looking for a broad-based theoretical perspective to guide further study and policy in music, well-being, and health.

Author : Adam Kendon,Thomas A. Sebeok,Jean Umiker-Sebeok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110880021

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Nonverbal Communication, Interaction, and Gesture by Adam Kendon,Thomas A. Sebeok,Jean Umiker-Sebeok Pdf

The present volume is an excellent introduction to the study of human nonverbal communication, including interaction and gesture, for students and specialists in other disciplines, as well as a convenient compilation of significant contributions to the field for experts. Part 1 includes four articles, the import of which is primarily theoretical or methodological. Part II comprises eight articles in which instances of interaction are examined and attempts are made to explain how the behavior that can be observed in them functions in the interaction process. Part III presents six articles on what may broadly be referred to as 'gesture'. These articles deal with specific actions, mostly of the forelimbs, which are usually deemed to have specific communicational significance. In an introductory chapter, the volume editor, Adam Kendon, not only examines the various issues raised by the eighteen papers but also shows the relevance of each article as a contribution to the development of an understanding of how human visible behavior functions communicatively.