Background: Healthcare delivery is largely accomplished in and through conversations between people, and healthcare quality and effectiveness depend enormously upon the communication practices employed within these conversations. An important body of evidence about these practices has been generated by conversation analysis and related discourse analytic approaches, but there has been very litt...

BACKGROUND Healthcare delivery is largely accomplished in and through conversations between people, and healthcare quality and effectiveness depend enormously upon the communication practices employed within these conversations. An important body of evidence about these practices has been generated by conversation analysis and related discourse analytic approaches, but there has been very littl...

Towards Preference Extraction From Negotiation Dialogues This paper presents an NLP based approach for preference expression extraction from negotiation dialogues. We propose a new annotation schema for preferences and dependencies among them and illustrate on two different corpus genres. We then suggest a learning approach that efficiently extracts preference expressions using a combination of...

Right-brain-damaged individuals may present discursive, pragmatic, lexical-semantic and/or prosodic disorders. Objective To verify the effect of right hemisphere damage on communication processing evaluated by the Brazilian version of the Protocole Montréal d'Évaluation de la Communication (Montreal Communication Evaluation Battery) - Bateria Montreal de Avaliação da Comunicação, Bateria MAC,...

This article outlines one tradition of qualitative research in social psychology, that of discourse analysis and discursive research. It proposes that the tradition offers an alternative conceptualisation of a psychosocial subject to accounts which draw on psychoanalytic theorising. The article reviews some of the problems around conceptualising a subject in discursive terms, then sets out some...

The present paper investigates discursive justification as a moderative device in Kalevala-metric incantations. It explores different uses of by Finno-Karelian ritual specialists and argues that functions differently with positively negatively evaluated non-human agents. In addition, typology units is provided. results the analysis reveal register-based feature within incantation genre. Types d...