This paper tests the usefulness of the category ‘intonation phrase’ for the analysis of natural conversation. It asks whether the intonation phrase is a relevant unit for participants, and if so, whether it is a prosodic, or indeed an interactional category. The data show that while participants do divide their speech into intonation phrase-like chunks, these chunks are not defined by intonatio...

Despite the rapid growth of text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC), its limitations have rendered the media highly incoherent. This poses problems for content analysis of online discourse archives. Interactional coherence analysis (ICA) attempts to accurately identify and construct CMC interaction networks. In this study, we propose the Hybrid Interactional Coherence (HIC) algorithm f...

Mobility and ubiquity bring about an increasing engagement in the concept of context. Environmental context such as location or light have been studied for a while, however little research has been done on interactional context – context that evolves in the course of interaction. This paper presents results of an empirical study conducted in order to assess the interactional context. The empiri...

The study examined the relationships among justice, burnout, and academic achievement using a sample (N=1,505) of undergraduate university students. The study was conducted at a university in northern part of Cyprus. Hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to test the hypotheses. The results revealed that distributive justice, procedural justice, and interactional justice were associated...

Mothers' return to work following childbirth is widely recognized as a key stage in establishing employment arrangements that disadvantage them in the long run. This article investigates why mothers accept these unequal arrangements using data from a qualitative study of 109 Australian mothers. It focuses on mothers' perceptions of the fairness and justice of the flexibility of arrangements the...

this comment argues that instead of worrying about the pros and cons of whistleblowing one should focus on the more general problem of the failure of upward communication around safety and quality problems and consider what leaders and managers must do to stimulate subordinates to communicate and reward such communication. the article analyzes why safety failures occur and introduces the concep...

Social actions performed through language are the focal object of research on speech act realization (speech act research,1 for short) and conversation analysis, among other approaches to discourse that I will not consider here. Yet because of their di¤erent disciplinary origins and histories, the two approaches are interested in di¤erent aspects of social action mediated through language and, ...

Dear reader, This here is the third installment of the Fundamental Issues in Modelling, Verification and Evolution of Software (MoVES) newsletter. The goal of the newsletter is to highlight the work performed in the context of the project through the different workpackages. As with previous issues, this edition of the newsletter is divided in two parts, the first one focusing on the results ach...

T concept of dominance among nodes of a branch-and-bound tree, although known for a long time, is typically not exploited by general-purpose mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) codes. The starting point of our work was the general-purpose dominance procedure proposed in the 1980s by Fischetti and Toth, where the dominance test at a given node of the branch-and-bound tree consists of the (po...

Dear Reader, this edition of the MoVES newsletter is dedicated to Workpackage 6, focused on verification methods and tools, and presents results obtained by the University of Liège on that topic. This issue of the newsletter describes three recent results that cover different research topics in the field of verification. The first result, presented on p. 2, introduces an original method for ana...