Talking It Through

"Happy, just talking, talking, talking": Community strengthening through mobile phone based peer support among refugee women

The provided resources synergised with existing resources such as social capital and information demand, resulting in changes to resource allocation and social processes, such as economic resource reallocation, information sharing, personal agency, and social support. These changes impacted areas such as employment, education, transportation and domestic violence, leading to improved individual...

Talking through walls: Signaling in plant development

Plants spend their entire life cycles rooted in one place. Thus, plant development, like the real estate business, is largely driven by location, location, location. A seedling emerges, perceives the hormonal and light signals that control its vegetative and reproductive development, finds and utilizes soil bound nutrient sources, and fends off hostilities wrought upon it by changing abiotic co...

“Talking It Out”: Deliberation With Others versus Deliberation Within

Timing in talking: what is it used for, and how is it controlled?

In the first part of the paper, we summarize the linguistic factors that shape speech timing patterns, including the prosodic structures which govern them, and suggest that speech timing patterns are used to aid utterance recognition. In the spirit of optimal control theory, we propose that recognition requirements are balanced against requirements such as rate of speech and style, as well as m...

Coding Stance through it bundles: The case of applied linguistics

Abstract The study of linguistic devices variously referred to as stance expressions is one of the best means by which the relationship between the writer, the reader, and propositional meaning could be examined. This paper looks at a particular structural group of lexical bundles encoding stance expressions. These are bundles starting with an anticipatory it followed by is, a predicative adjec...