This paper presents and motivates a methodology for conducting semantic fieldwork on languages of the Americas. I first argue that one cannot gather adequate information about meaning from spontaneous discourse alone. Thus, direct elicitation (including asking consultants for judgments) is an indispensable methodological tool. I then present more detailed methodological suggestions. I offer tec...

This article proposes a description of a psycho-diagnostic tool for psychotherapists, the Interactional Pattern Analysis (IPA). Sixteen interpersonal variables are proposed to describe the observable behaviour that constitutes a client’s interpersonal style within the context of a particular relationship, such as client-therapist; husband-wife; mother-daughter; friends: context; definition of t...

The efficacy of metacognitive therapy based on detached mindfulness meta-worry and interpersonal cognitive distortion in women with postpartum depression

An account of discourse connectives is given which focusses on their entailments. It covers uses of such connectives both to express discourse-internal situational relations and to express meta-level discourse relations. Representing the second of these involves explicitly introducing utterance mood into the logical form. The entailments of both situational and discourse uses of connectives are...

OBJECTIVE Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), a structured and time-limited therapy, has been studied in many controlled trials. Numerous practice guidelines have recommended IPT as a treatment of choice for unipolar depressive disorders. The authors conducted a meta-analysis to integrate research on the effects of IPT. METHOD The authors searched bibliographical databases for randomized contr...

If we focus on ‘relevance’, the textual metafunction creates relevance by adding prominence through assigning relative value to parts of the clause (Matthiessen 1992). The Theme, for instance, functions to select meaning(s) from the clause (Hannay & Martínez Caro, 2008) and to assign them thematic prominence, which has consequences for the thematic development of the text (Fries, 1992) in contr...

Mundane discourse abounds with utterances referring to other utterances. These meta-language utterances appear with surprising frequency in task-oriented dialogues, such as those arising in the context of a natural language interface to an operating system. This paper identifies some simpler types of dialogue-level meta language utterance and provides a computational framework to process such p...

After reading the article " Disembodiment is a Cyberspace Myth: Discourse and the Self in Real Space, " by Steve Stanley, I was struck by a number of issues. 1 I did not think the author proved conclusively (or in any way) that dis-embodiment is a cyberspace myth. The techniques and methodology did not prove this point, although he raised a number of interesting questions. One central issue is,...