This paper examines the relationship between verbal and visual semiotic cues by analyzing how semiotic cues position speakers interactionally and communicate implicit evaluative messages in one television news story. The paper summarizes an analysis of this news story that my collaborator and I have done based solely on verbal cues (Wortham & Locher, 1996). Then the paper analyzes the visual cu...

This study aimed at investigating the potential of collaborative and e-collaborative writing modalities in developing interactional complexity, utilization of interactional demonstrators and density of interaction. To this end, 66 Iranian intermediate female English as foreign language learners (EFL) were selected to participate in this study according to their scores on Oxford Placement Test (...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prosodic aspects of therapists' empathic communication. METHOD 70 audio-recorded sessions of cognitive psychotherapy and psychoanalysis were analysed using conversation analysis. RESULTS Two interactional trajectories where the therapists either validated the clients' emotions or challenged them were identified. The difference between these trajectories was not ...

The modelling of pragmatic features of natural conversation to help AAC users achieve a range of social conversational goals is considered in relation to the development of an AAC system based on text pre-storage and retrieval. Problems facing designers of AAC systems are highlighted in the hope that insights from NLP may contribute to solutions. 1 Conversational goals People have a variety of ...

Students beliefs and attitudes towards risk taking can impact on their mathematics learning and performance. However, at present, risk is not established in the field of mathematics education. The challenge for mathematics teachers in developing their students’ risk taking dispositions is to choose appropriate activities and tools that match this concept and the learning needs of the students. ...

Students beliefs and attitudes towards risk taking can impact on their mathematics learning and performance. However, at present, risk is not established in the field of mathematics education. The challenge for mathematics teachers in developing their students’ risk taking dispositions is to choose appropriate activities and tools that match this concept and the learning needs of the students. ...