This paper explores online learning communities, why they might be important, and how tutors might support their development. A simple typology is presented, which identifies online students’ expressed needs for tutor support and intervention, within a VLE-based online programme. The potential usefulness of this typology in assisting tutors to facilitate the development of an online learning co...

This paper investigates the bodily signals of vagueness. After presenting the conceptual notion of vagueness by contrasting with uncertainty, approximation, confusion and ambiguity, the notion of “metadiscursive vagueness signal” is presented, a case of metadiscursive signals that convey “I am being vague”. Then a qualitative analysis of bodily signals of vagueness is presented, while singling ...

This paper introduces a typology of speeches within board game players in order to examine their communication process from the view point of pedagogical effectiveness using an environmental education game "KEEP COOL". We already have analyzed the speeches issued by players applying KJ method as basic analysis. To generalize the classification of speeches, we introduce new typology mainly focus...

This article attempts to develop a general typology of transcultural wars in as broad and theoretical way as possible. My examples will be drawn primarily from early medieval European warfare (up to c. 1200, and sometimes from beyond Europe in this chronological era), but as the references to other articles in this collection will try to show, I aim at a general typology that transcends this ch...

This paper investigates the issue of intermediation and the role of intermediaries in the innovation process. The aim of this paper is three-fold. Firstly, to review and synthesis the literature in this field; from this to develop a typology and framework of the different roles and functions of the intermediation process within innovation; lastly to try and operationalise the typology within th...

The UK has been one of the countries at vanguard developments Environmental Assessment (EA) theory and practice. It is likely that this globally prominent position developed through ongoing collaboration between academia practice which pervades teaching, research, itself. However, scale nature unclear, restricts learning might lead to encouraging growing existing collaborations, not just inside...

Background Research on health worker migration in the Irish context has previously sought to categorize migrant health workers by country or region of training (e.g. non-EU nurses or doctors), by migration channel or mechanism (e.g. actively recruited nurses). This paper applies a recently developed typology of health worker migration [1], to the experiences of non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland...

This article presents an overview of the goals and methods of semantic typology, the study of the distribution of semantic categories across languages. Results from this field inform theoretical accounts of syntax-semantics interface phenomena, as well as the nature of the relationship between language and cognition. This article discusses a variety of quantitative methods that represent recent...

This study uses Henry Mintzberg's classification of ten work roles of managers, and narrows it down to four work roles which are most frequently performed by CEOs as they uphold academic medical centers’ missions of providing quality medical education, research and patient care. Through principal component analysis, the four roles were used to form a typology of CEOs. This typology can be used ...

The present study aimed to cross-validate Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart’s typology in a Spanish sample of court-referred intimate partner violence batterers. The study also analyzed the typology’s capability to predict treatment attendance, completion, and IPV recidivism two years after the treatment. The sample consisted of 210 batterers court referred to a batterer intervention program. Using ...