The article addresses the pragmatic and sociolinguistic constraints of interrupting in Roman comedy. It starts with a redefinition phenomenon informed by methods Conversation Analysis (CA): apart from syntactically incomplete utterances (as result interruptions others), analysis also includes cases reported characters. Furthermore, distinction is made between intrusive (disaligning) interventio...

Web search is a common activity in mobile context. However, the nature of performing tasks environment means there risk interruption. While effects interruptions on have been studied recent years, such occurring real-world settings not. Using diary study approach, we collected data from 20 participants everyday they faced conducting web searches over 10-day period. We used inductive open coding...

The extent to which memory for information content is reliable, trustworthy, and accurate is crucial in the information age. Being forced to divert attention to interrupting messages is common, however, and can cause memory loss. The memory effects of interrupting messages were investigated in three experiments. In Experiment 1, attending to an interrupting message decreased memory accuracy. Ex...