Mobile phone use in cars is a highly debated issue. Legislation and policy discussions flourish in many countries and coincide with an increased effort in design of new in-car technologies. The studies which influence policy and design decisions use experimental approaches and are based on a cognitive perspective. In this paper, we discuss why this is a problematic approach. Further, we provide...

Aceptado: 05/12/2013 The objective of this study is to show how conversation analysis, a sociological discipline, approaches the study of social institutions. Social institutions are conceived as the crystallization of members’ communicative, interactional practices. Two institutional domains—psychiatric interviews and broadcast news interviews —and a specific interactional practice—‘formulatio...

The study aims to test the mediating role of interactional justice on effect mushroom management style organizational cynicism. Data were collected by survey method from 107 research assistants working in a state university Turkey. structural equation model (SEM) was used model. In study, firstly, cynicism tested. After this step, mediator variable included As result analysis, it concluded that...

This paper explores durational aspects of pauses, gaps and overlaps in three different conversational corpora with a view to challenge claims about precision timing in turn-taking. Distributions of pause, gap and overlap durations in conversations are presented, and methodological issues regarding the statistical treatment of such distributions are discussed. The results are related to publishe...

Purpose - In this study, it is aimed to reveal how brand trust and satisfaction or dissatisfaction of aftersales services affect the attribution consumers. Design/methodology/approach- Toward purpose two models have been developed regarding with provided by authorized services. Scenario technique scales used in literature were used. The data collected through a questionnaire from 484 automobile...

Juxtaposing symbolic interactionist and postmodern interpretations of cyberself-ing, I bring data to bear on the tensions between these two theoretical stances. I argue that postmodernist accounts are no longer tenable; such studies were based on multi-user domains (MUDs), but generalized to cyberspace. I examine the evolving internet population, which has reached a critical mass of the America...