Conversation is central to human interaction. The usual way to conduct asynchronous “conversations” over the Internet is to post e-mail messages on an electronic bulletin board, with messages organized by topic. However, such environments do not allow us to exploit the richness of conversation theory for effective collaboration. This presentation will review key elements of conversation theory ...

objectives: the spontaneous language sample analysis is an important part of the language assessment protocol. language samples give us useful information about how children use language in the natural situations of daily life. the purpose of this study was to compare conversation, freeplay, and narrative speech in aspects of mean length of utterance (mlu), type-token ratio (ttr), and the numbe...

le narrateur proustien – comme d’ailleurs l’auteur lui-même – est élevé dans un milieu familial et social où l’intelligence était hautement valorisée et appréciée. pour lui, comme pour le philosophe gilles deleuze, « rien ne donne plus à penser que ce qui se passe dans la tête d’un sot » (2003, 101). c’est ainsi qu’a la recherche du temps perdu, souvent considéré comme le magnifique monument li...

This study investigated the comparative effect of teaching idiomatic expressions through practicing them in conversation and paragraph writing on intermediate EFL learners’ idiom learning. The participants were sorted out of a population of 134 intermediate students in Zabansara Language School in Khorramabad based on their scores on a Preliminary English Test (PET) and an idiom test piloted in...

In this paper, we present a computational approach to understanding and augmenting the conversational knowledge process. We introduce the concept of the conversation quantization, a technique of approximating a continuous flow of conversation by a series of conversation quanta that represent points of the discourse. To investigate what the nature of conversation quanta is, we attempt to extract...

Given the increasing amount of conversation data, techniques to automatically acquire information about conversation participants have become more important. Towards this goal, we investigate the problem of conversation entailment, a task that determines whether a given conversation discourse entails a hypothesis about the participants. This paper describes the challenges related to conversatio...

With the COVID-19 pandemic, families are having to coordinate their behaviors face new challenges, such as negotiating social distancing measures that family will or not take in daily interaction. This study utilizes Family Communication Patterns Theory examine conversations young adults reported with members about and what factors predicted outcomes of these disagreements. A family’s level con...

We approach break taking at work as social activity and examine closings a type of transition from one to another. Using conversation analysis, we draw on video data five communities in Finnish institutions higher education focus linguistic practice that the participants frequently utilize closings: accounts end citing obligations. Our show addition multimodally adjusting their leaving ongoing ...