Systemic Functional Linguistics explicates how texts communicate ideational, interpersonal, and textual meanings. Texts produced by cultural pedagogic institutions, such as museums, depend on several discursive choices to construct interpersonal meanings communicated through the interaction between institution, what it stands for, interactant visitors. Museum-texts to/with visitors pertaining s...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE To explore the meanings assigned to the experience of receiving chemotherapy. DESIGN Descriptive exploratory. SETTING An oncology outpatient clinic in a university hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. SAMPLE Ten women with breast cancer who experienced chemotherapy for the first time. METHODS Semistructured interview using a grounded theory approach. FINDINGS Women ...

"Thinking too much", and variations such as "thinking a lot", are common idioms of distress across the world. The contextual meaning of this idiom of distress in particular localities remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a systematic study of the content and cause, consequences, and social response and coping related to the local terms |x'an n|a te and |eu-ca n|a te, both translated a...

The literature on the effects of cultural diversity on conflict and team performance has been dominated by the information processing and social categorization theories. This article adds to the existing literature by adopting a dynamic constructivist approach detailing the effects of interpersonal conflict on cognition in multicultural environments. The fulcrum of this model is whether the con...

The relationship between a word and its possible meanings is known as semantics (Megginson, 1996). Depending on context, this relationship may add complexity to interpersonal communication. The very mention of particular words can produce two types of meaning: denotative, or referential, and connotative, or representational. A person may be able to give the denotative meaning (i.e., dictionary ...

This paper deals with the concept of grammatical subjecthood, and focuses on different perspectives from which this grammatical function has been defined and described in a number of linguistic schools. Properties that have been assigned to the Subject function are grouped into four dimensions (i.e. predication, mood, voice/diathesis, and theme), and it is argued that each of these Subject dime...

Cross-cultural psychology has played a very important role in identifying, describing, and even explaining psychological structures that are involved in the perception of interpersonal behavior. This chapter reviews work based on the research paradigm of subjective culture, which establishes that at least three interpersonal dimensions have been identified across cultures and historical periods...