I have elsewhere argued (Ariel, 2002) against the assumption that we can identify one literal meaning per sentence. Instead, I have suggested that there are (at least) three types of minimal meanings, each differently motivated. One implicit motivation behind the classical definition of literal meaning (Grice’s ‘what is said’) is a wish to capture the core content of sentences. I here examine d...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate interactional effects of patient-centered interviewing (PCI) compared to isolated clinician-centered interviewing (CCI). METHODS We conducted a pilot study comparing PCI (N=4) to CCI (N=4) for simulated new-patient visits. We rated interviews independently and measured patient satisfaction with the interaction via a validated questionnaire. We conducted interactional so...

Text-only CMC has been claimed to be interactionally incoherent due to limitations imposed by messaging systems on turn-taking and reference, yet its popularity continues to grow. In an attempt to resolve this apparent paradox, this study evaluates the coherence of computermediated interaction by surveying research on cross-turn coherence. The results reveal a high degree of disrupted adjacency...

Interactional quality has been shown to enhance learning during book reading and play, but has not been examined during touch screen use. Learning to apply knowledge from a touch screen is complex for infants because it involves transfer of learning between a two-dimensional (2D) screen and three-dimensional (3D) object in the physical world. This study uses a touch screen procedure to examine ...

I n the paper, we propose a vision-based system for adaptively inferring the interactional intention of a person coming close to a robot, which plays an important role i n the succeeding stage of human/robot cooperative operations typically i n production lines. It is naturally supposed that the interactional intention of a person induces her action of approaching to the robot and touchiny it. ...

As a hallmark of authentic science practices, students need to enact epistemic agency shape/reshape the key aspects their inquiry work as collaborative community. This study elaborates an emergent temporal mechanism for engaging students' agency: “reflective structuration” by which members classroom community coconstruct ever-evolving directions and group structures collective proceeds. Using i...