In this chapter we describe the development of the Individual Group Member Interpersonal Process Scale (IGIPS), a group therapy process measure based on an interpersonal, interactionally oriented approach to group psychotherapy. We delineate the nature of the group theory underlying the IGIPS as well as the entire developmental history of the instrument. The rationale for the creation of the me...

This chapter considers the relationship between statistical analysis of coding based on theoretical schemes and conversation analysis of VMT participants’ structuring of their chats. It describes how a statistical test on a hypothesis regarding collaboration in VMT showed an unexpected result, whose understanding required the use of qualitative methods. The phenomenon behind the puzzling result...

This article explores the ways in which Asian American teenagers creatively appropriated two African American slang terms: aite and na mean. While some teens racialized slang as belonging to African Americans, other teens authenticated identities as slang speakers. Through close analysis of slang-inuse and particularly of the metapragmatic discussions such uses inspired, this article examines h...

Complex systems require the use of an integrated and best balanced set of components. The integration and the balanced set are crucial issues, which require some sort of verifiable compositionality property of component parts that contribute structurally, functionally, non functionally and interactionally to the total quality of the system design. This is even more important when dealing with t...

Communication for informed choice is particularly challenging in clinical settings such as direct-entry midwifery, where the care model embraces diverse therapies and forms of knowledge. We identified three discursive moves (explanation, invocation, and evaluation) that Ontario midwives and clients used in making claims about proposed interventions. The analysis was informed by an understanding...

Psychological research into eating practices has focused mainly on attitudes and behaviour towards food, and disorders of eating. Using experimental and questionnaire-based designs, these studies place an emphasis on individual consumption and cognitive appraisal, overlooking the interactive context in which food is eaten. The current article examines eating practices in a more naturalistic env...

During dialog, humans are able to track ongoing topics, to detect topical shifts, to refer to topics via labels, and to decide on the appropriateness of potential dialog topics. As a result, they interactionally produce coherent sequences of spoken utterances assigning a thematic structure to the whole conversation. Accordingly, an artificial agent that is intended to engage in natural and soph...

While the advent of technology has revolutionized how businesses operate and how work is done, it has also opened up new avenues and opportunities for individuals to misbehave. This study focused on cyberloafing—the act of employees using their companies’ Internet access for personal purposes during work hours. Using the theoretical framework offered by research on neutralization techniques, we...

Linguistic assumptions of an individual speaker-hearer are subtly reflected in analyses code switching that assign switches to “conversational strategies,” categories treated as if they existed prior to, and independent of, actual interactions. While such provide convenient rubrics for many common significant social functions switching, fail capture the interactionally emergent switches. In thi...

In this article, the assessment practice known as “grade conference” is analysed using an interactionally oriented narrative approach. The aim to explore grade conference and what it entails for students when executed in their fourth year of compulsory school, part a trial educational reform where receive grades from four instead six. Two cases illustrate way that are positioned ascribed differ...