Recent communicative approaches have suggested that one goal of English language teaching should be to replicate 'genuine' or 'natural' rather than 'typical' or 'traditional' classroom communication. This article argues that such a goal is both paradoxical and unattainable, and that there are serious flaws in the assumptions underlying the communicative orthodoxy concerning ELT classroom intera...

The purpose of this study is to explore the relations between environmental and personal factors affecting accepted peer influence as a determinant of the individual attitude toward information security. Interactional psychology offers a research framework in which the individual attitude related to security is considered a result of an interaction between the person and the situation. While re...

The sociolinguistic construct of stancetaking describes the activities through which discourse participants create and signal relationships to their interlocutors, to the topic of discussion, and to the talk itself. Stancetaking underlies a wide range of interactional phenomena, relating to formality, politeness, affect, and subjectivity. We present a computational approach to stancetaking, in ...

This chapter outlines the application of interactional structures observed by various researchers to the development of artificial interactive agents. The original work from which these structures are drawn has been carried out by researchers in a range of fields including anthropology, sociology and social psychology: the ‘local approach’ described in this paper draws particularly on conversat...

this study examines the impact of organizational development and justice on behavioral indicators. for this purpose, the relationship between organizational development, organizational justice dimensions (procedural justice, interactional justice and distributive justice), and behavioral indicators (organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior) were examined using a concept...

The aim of this study is to examine the ways in which individuals’perceptions of media use are inji’uenced by others. Traditional theories of media use have proposed that perceptions of media use are shaped by individuals’ demographic characteristics and the media’s characteristics. However, three recent theories--cn’tical mass theory, social inf7uence model of media use, and adaptive structura...

There are two principal theories of why countries or regions trade: comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Yet there is virtually no empirical work that assesses the relative importance of these two theories in accounting for production structure and trade. We use a framework that nests an increasing returns model of economic geography featuring ‘home market effects’ with that o...

The digital divide is usually conceptualized through “goods-dominant logic,” where bridging the divide entails providing digital goods to disadvantaged segments of the population. This is expected to enhance their digital capabilities and thus to have a positive influence on the digital outcomes (or services) experienced. In contrast, this study is anchored in an alternative “service-dominant l...

This study aimed to investigate the use of interactional metadiscourse markers in 168 comments made by 28 university students of engineering via an educational forum held as part of a general English course. The students wrote their comments on six topics, with a total of 19,671 words. Their comments during educational discussions were analyzed to determine their use of five metadiscourse categ...

This article discusses use of the Developmental-Interactional Model of family therapy by a Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) for selected patients receiving psychiatric home care services. This form of family therapy is an integrative approach to working with individuals, couples, and families that combines elements of structural-strategic family therapy with life cycle and intergener...