Interruptions frequently occur in dyadic human interaction. In addition to serve as turn-taking mechanism, they may lead to different perceptions of both the interruptee and interrupter’s interpersonal attitude, engagement and involvement. We present an empirical study to investigate whether different interruption types (i.e. amount of overlap between speakers and utterance completeness) and st...

Dual-channel not only provides reasonable products but also a large quantity of opportunities, where the members’ attitude towards risk has a major impact on channel optimization. In this paper, risks are classified as general risk and interruption risk. As for general risk, combined with risk-aversion attitude, mean-variance method is used to build optimal pricing model and expected utility mo...

To study the behavior of the pause within the temporal structure of the speech, the combination of perceptual and acousticphonetic analysis is used for the delineation and measurement of the interruption of the audible flow of a theatrical interpretation performed by a single actor. Pauses were classified according to structural, functional, distributional and temporal criteria. The relevance o...

Phenomenological qualitative methods were used to identify anci describe moral eiements in therapeutic reiationships. Using the relational JDhiiosophy of E. Levinas (1961/1969, 1979/1987) as a base, data in which therapists and ciients identified and described moraiiy responsive experiences in therapy sessions were anaiyzed. These moments were often unexpected and inciuded categories of surpris...

In this paper we examine the relation between technologies that aim to remediate pollution and moral responsibility. Contrary to the common view that successful remediation technologies will permit the wheels of industry to turn without interruption, we argue that such technologies do not exculpate polluters of responsibility. To make this case, we examine several environmental and non-environm...