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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"Conversation analysis"”.
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Conversation analysis in interactive computer system design
… and human-computer interaction. Prospectively, conversation analysis provides the resources for design of more natural interactive systems,and represents the possibility of design guidance which avoids the problems inherent in current design guidelines. The methods and findings of conversation …
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Measuring Interactivity in Audio Teleconferencing using Conversation Analysis
… engineering metrics and work from the field of Conversation Analysis (CA) to fulfil this aim. Specifically, techniques are developed to identify conversation attributes using objective measures of speech performance to help determine the quality of experience and ease of conversational flow …
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Conversation Analysis of Engineering Parents' Occupational Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs
… occupation through informal interactions such as conversations. This is highly evident in the phenomena of occupational inheritance that is prevalent within engineering families.
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Therapists’ responses to young people’s anger: a Conversation Analysis approach
… Psychotherapy (STPP) Method: This study used Conversation Analysis (CA) to analyse 10 patient-therapist conversations in extracts extrapolated from 4 different patient-therapist couples. The four treatments were audio-recorded as part of the STPP arm of the IMPACT study, a randomised …
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Talking as restorative justice : a conversation analysis of victim-offender meetings
… transcribed and examined using the method of conversationanalysis. Findings revealed that restorative justice meetings were framed by institutional talk.They were organised using specialised turn-taking procedures and pre-allocated roles.Facilitators asked questions and victims and offenders …
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Towards Collaboration: A Comparative, Longitudinal, Conversation Analysis of Change in Talk-in-Interaction in Psychotherapy
<p>The study utilizes conversation analysis to describe changes at the level of talk-in-interaction across four points of time (beginning, middle, late, and ending sessions) in four different psychotherapies: two “successful” psychotherapies and two “unsuccessful” ones, with the author of this …
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An Application of Conversation Analysis to the Development of a Test of Second -Language Pragmatic Competence
Major findings included the following: conversation analysis could be applied in a practical fashion to the assessment of second-language pragmatics (SLP), though low reliabilities gathered from the pool of upper-theta examinees appeared to make psychometrically-driven SLPT problematic; therefore, …
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Forms and functions of the French discourse particle hein in French mundane conversation: a conversation analysis perspective
… native speakers. This study was conducted using Conversation Analysis (CA) as methodology. The data for this study consist of four different sets of videotaped and audio-taped, non-elicited mundane conversation, yielding a total of 6 hours of conversation. Speakers included six family members and …
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“What country are you from originally?” A conversation analysis of black clients' and black therapists' talk during therapeutic encounters
… drew on microanalytic approaches, including Conversation Analysis, Membership Category Analysis and Discursive Psychology to analyse the data. The analysis highlighted four distinct findings: a) racial and cultural identities are drawn upon in talk both implicitly and explicitly, b) …
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BREAKING BREAD, SHAPING UNDERSTANDING: THE ECO-FOOD COMMUNITY AS COGNITIVE SYSTEM
<p>In this thesis I employ insights from Conversation Analysis and Embodied Cognition Theory to examine the discursive practices of a group of interactants who operate in what I describe as a group cognitive system. While studies on embodied cognition have been done on both individuals and groups …
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Reflex motion : choreographing the design of a performing arts center in Hadley, Massachusetts
… through the techniques of intuitive drawing, conversation analysis, videotaping, site totems, and a reflexive journal. The design project is a performing arts complex in western Massachusetts. The program includes a performance theater for music and dance, an outdoor amphitheater, a rehearsal …
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A Linguistic Analysis of Adult Aphasic Discourse
… incorporates a tripartite approach to discourse analysis--the formal (a textual analysis), empirical (conversation analysis), and strategic (CS analysis)--each of which constitutes a pivotal part of a cumulative, macroanalytic, approach. The model puts to test extant frameworks of discourse …
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EXAMINING THE USE OF L1+ IN THE ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: A CONVERSATION ANALYTIC STUDY OF STUDENT PRACTICES
… with other students in the class. Empirical analysis is needed to understand how and for what purposes the L1+ is used. This study takes a micro-analytic approach using Conversation Analysis (CA) to examine L1+ practices that students engage in and the actions that are accomplished by their …
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The Politics of Town Hall Meetings: Analyzing Constituent Relations-in-Interaction
… social interaction, into being. This study uses conversation analysis, the study of talk-in-interaction, to show that the politics of town hall meetings orients to three types of accountability: Interactional accountability, political accountability, and public accountability. The articulation of …
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Teacher Communication With Native English and Native Spanish Speaking Parents During Head Start Parent -Teacher Conferences
… those with special needs. Results of qualitative analysis of participant interviews suggested that teachers and parents tended to expect teachers to control conferences and act as experts. Parents were expected to be passive and defer to teacher expertise. Results of conversation analysis and …
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Psychotherapy as constitutional practice: A detailed interaction analysis of the change process in psychotherapy
… interpretation. The research procedure combines conversation analysis with de Rivera's (1977) Structural Theory of Emotion, and Wortham's (2001) action based theory of narrative positioning, to form a coherent methodology called <italic>Detailed Interaction Analysis<</>. The study demonstrates …
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THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: POIESIS AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE MULTILINGUAL SUBJECT
… recordings of the poetry-making activities. Data analysis incorporated multimodal methods associated with conversation analysis and intertextuality. Findings demonstrate that poetic features the L2 participants deploy are crucial to their sense-making and linguistic self-formation. The author …
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A contrastive analysis of individual ESL writing conferences: theory, practice, and perceptions
… project compares the data examined according to conversation analysis methodology and ethnographic interview approach with what the current literature suggests as desired practice for conducting successful ESL writing conferences.
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Conversation between nurses and patients with aphasia : how to stay out of trouble
This study aimed to investigate the conversational practices used by nursing staff interacting with patients with aphasia in a rehabilitation health care setting. Six dyads, each comprising of a qualified nurse and an adult with moderate to severe aphasia, were videotaped conversing in the …
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Using social media to enhance knowledge sharing in authentic contexts : a case of undergraduate computer science students at Bindura University
… attachment are discussed. In this study, conversation analysis of Facebook posts was performed against nine elements of authentic learning by Herrington Reeves and Oliver (2010). This was done to investigate the extent to which FB supported authentic learning during Industrial Attachment …
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