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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Casual conversations"”.
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Verbal Disagreement in Saudi Arabic and British English Casual Conversations: Cross-cultural and gender comparisons
… in Saudi Arabic (SaA) and British English (BrE) casual conversations. It particularly focuses on both pragmatic and structural patterns of naturally-occurring disagreements in the two cultural groups. In addition to examining the variable of cultural background, the impact of the two variables of …
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闲聊会话的连续性初探 = An exploratory study of the continuity of casual conversations among Singaporean young Chinese working adults
… to understand the achievement of continuity in casual conversations. The investigation set sights on three aspects which are of direct relation to the sustainment of conversation, namely topic generation, thematic organization, listener responses. This study also aims to seek clarity on the …
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Moms are survivors, because our kids are more ours': narratives of middle-class, white mothers in Cape Town
… was obtained through participant observation, casual conversations and formal, semi-structured, one-on-one interviews. This minor thesis draws on a body of literature that focuses on the multiple paradoxes mothers' face, such as, the traditional gendered notions of what it means to be a "good" …
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Encounters with Trees: A Study of Extraordinary Experiences in Nature
… reality. Other experiences were more like casual conversations, but some nevertheless had effects as significant as changes in career. While existing research explores the communication between trees and the attitudes of humans concerning trees, this study brings new context to the …
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Tourism and its relationship to community development in Chamarel, Mauritius
… interviews, participant observation, casual conversations, narratives, social events and netnographic sources. The data was expanded over a ten year period to identify patterns and themes in community tourism during 2004 to 2014. This multifaceted approach represents a new methodology …
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From the killing fields to a field of hope: the portrait of a teacher's dream
… observations, interviews, a focus group, casual conversations, and document analysis. Analyzing these data using the Portraiture Approach resulted in a complex picture of this teacher’s professional life within the village and school and of ways literacy is shared in rural areas of the …
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Indie Music in Post-bomb Bali: Participant Practices, Scene Subjectivities
… in scene practices, recorded interviews, casual conversations, and attention to "material culture," including hard copy and digital albums, music videos, and band merchandise. By applying theories derived from sociological phenomenology and symbolic interactionism, this study argues that …
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“It’s very important to hear what everyone has to say”: A Study Into teaching and learning in a Centre for Survivors of Institutional Abuse
… of tutors. This was done initially through casual conversations and then through interviews during the research process. Learners at the centre are vulnerable and have a uniquely dark past relationship with education. An awareness of this among tutors is important so that they can determine …
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Hustle Revolution: Participation of young graduates in the informal economy of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
… interviews, hanging out (observations) and casual conversations with young graduates who participate in the informal economy in Bulawayo and organisations that work with youth in the city. Twelve participants were selected using snowball and purposive sampling techniques. The study was …
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Exploring conceptions of disability held by Anishinaabe secondary school students
… recorded, semi-structured interviews, and casual conversations with students, teachers, elders, chiefs and family members, are recounted in my research journals. The role of schooling in Canada’s genocide, seems to cause the Anishinaabe self-governing school to be framed by the students, …
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Cross-cultural linguistic politeness: Misunderstanding between Arabs and British speakers of English.
… The first type of recording is of face-to-face casual conversations. The candidates for this type had to fill in a questionnaire and some of them attended follow-up interviews. The second type of recording is taken from television and radio broadcasts. Data was selectively transcribed and the …
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Referring expressions in Chinese and English discourse
… different speech situations, i.e., face-to-face casual conversations, news broadcasts, and public speeches. The written texts represent different types, including short stories, novels, academic prose, magazine and journal articles, published letters and personal letters. The spoken and written …
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Discursive (in)stability: Moral subjectivities and global hierarchies in transnational migrant women’s narratives
… recordings of semi-structured interviews and casual conversations between Uzbek women living in the United States. Across these different contexts, I examine the use of evaluative language, voicing, deictics, various narrative structures, and code-switching between Uzbek, Russian and English …
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Understanding the decision-making process of coaches and high-performance staff on player training and game availability in the National Rugby League (NRL) men
… – but ultimately, the human connection through conversations (formal and informal) determined selection. Introduction: The game of rugby league is a physically demanding contest where players repeatedly perform intermittent high-speed running bouts, involving frequent accelerations, …
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The perception and practice of silence in Australian and Jordanian societies : a socio-pragmatic study
… of Australian English and Jordanian Arabic in casual conversation from a socio-pragmatic perspective. It also attempts to anticipate processes in which silence can be created and used in the mainstream of communication. In addition, it identifies problems in perceiving and practising silence in …