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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"miscommunication"”.
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Mind, meaning and miscommunication
I examine various instances of miscommunication to look for factors that might provide a clearer understanding of the nature of meaning. My focus is on how meaning relates to mind. I am therefore concerned primarily with utterances as linguistic units in themselves, and only secondarily with …
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Communication and Miscommunication (Language, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Understanding)
… systems that can detect and recover from miscommunication. The study of miscommunication is a necessary task within such a context since any computer capable of communicating with humans in natural language must be tolerant of the imprecise, ill-devised or complex utterances that people …
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Constructing, Construing, and Communicating: Intercultural Communication in La Paz, Bolivia
… that these differences will sometimes result in miscommunication. Although I find instances where differences in the discourse cues could have led to misunderstanding, it is not always that clear-cut whether they did or not. The expectations that the officials and representatives hold in relation …
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Crazy People
… itself in the form of open-ended endings, miscommunication between characters, rhetorical questions, and allusions to unspecified characters. The preface seeks to differentiate "good" space from "bad" space by citing examples from the author's own work, as well as the works of Raymond …
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Aspects of turn-taking in deaf-hearing conversation
… speech of the hearing-impaired may result in the miscommunication of turn-completion and thus cause unintended interruptions by a Hearing interlocutor. It also examines the conversational behaviour of interlocutors, focusing principally on interruptive behaviour, in an attempt to determine whether …
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Comparing the interpretation of text message punctuation by native and non-native English speakers
… in text messages, and this variation can lead to miscommunication between texters of the two groups. These findings have valuable implications, in terms of pragmatics and second language pedagogy.
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An analysis of communication between health-care workers and Xhosa-speaking patients in a Cape Town hospital, from the perspective of language cognition and inter-cultural communication
… and makes recommendations in order to minimise miscommunication and enhance communication.
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Unnamed Lands
… the failure of language, cross-cultural miscommunication, humor as deflection, the nature of theatre, voyeurism and exhibitionism, ostracism and solitude, abuse (sexual, physical, and emotional), and the limits of empathy. Through testing the boundaries and conventions of twenty-first …
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Improving surgical documentation in paediatric oncology evaluating the outcomes of synoptic operative reports on documentation completeness in childhood cancer surgery
… of standardization, contributing to potential miscommunication within multidisciplinary healthcare teams. The research examines how SR, with their standardized and structured format, can enhance the completeness, clarity, and communication of critical intraoperative findings in pediatric solid …
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Writing as Conversation: The Importance of Communication in Laurence Sterne's <em>Tristram Shandy</em>.
… relationships to illustrate the consequences of miscommunication. The final chapter focuses on Tristram’s role as the narrator. His personality and conversations with the reader also speak to the role of communication in the novel.</p>
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Discourse Strategies in Technical-support Interactions
… in survey instruments, and discourse moments of miscommunication and empathy. Even though organizations must maintain users by successfully training technical-support providers to interact with users, no empirical study exists that explores the discourse strategies these workers can employ in the …
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An Architectural Investigation of the Haptic Sense: A Material Exploration of the Balance Between Building, Body, and Landscape
… and natural spaces. It is precisely this miscommunication which led to an exploration of the haptic sense and a material investigation of the choreography between our bodies, our buildings, and our landscape. In order to create a memorable space or in the case of this exercise, create …
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MINORITIES' PERCEPTIONS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
… workers in reference to cultural competency. Miscommunication between the social workers at agencies and parents could have played a significant role in why participants had these experiences. However, most participants felt that the agency helped with services that ultimately left the …
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An Underlying Perplexity
… address social, political, inter/intrapersonal miscommunication, mental health issues, and the mechanisms of power and justice. While much of my research focuses on drawing attention to these problems in detail, my creative practice aims to demonstrate my significant care for and empathy towards …
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Human and nature at conflict: a case study of Mauritius flying fox, Pteropus niger
… despite each stakeholder having valid arguments, miscommunication and lack of mediation resulted in ineffective actions. A need for more eco-centric approaches that allow for sustainable development was identified. Reforestation and biodiversity conservation need to be included in the political …
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Managing projects utilizing self-managed teams and managerial toolkits
… the project lifecycle due to scope creep or miscommunication can ultimately push the project to miss deadlines or be over budget. Another alternative approach to software development is using self organizing teams. Free/Open Source software development approach uses the concept of self …
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Physician/Nurse Knowledge Exchange Through Rounding: Effective Communication and Optimal Patient Outcomes
… Lack of communication or miscommunication is the root cause of 60% to 70% of sentinel events among healthcare professionals, which result in decreased patient and staff satisfaction and outcomes, increase in medication errors, and decrease awareness of a health issue, …
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Experiences of parenting learners with regards to learner pregnancy policy
… illustrate that there is a misunderstanding and miscommunication between teachers and learners about learner pregnancy. Pregnant learners hide pregnancy from the teachers to avoid comments and from being expelled from the school and consequently do not get any support from the school. On the …
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Nurse Shift Handoff Report at the Patient's Bedside: Improving Nurse-to-Nurse Communication
… two quarters of 2016, which were associated with miscommunication. In response, BSR was implemented in the sub-acute unit as a method to improve the nurses’ communication and collaboration during shift handoffs. Lewin’s theory was the main framework used to guide the implementation of this …
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A mixed methods study on choice of media influence on construction industry communication
… fragmented nature of the construction industry, miscommunication is a well-known and common problem. Yet, this fragmented nature is necessary in order to build a complex product involving many different types of professionals. To better understand the issue, this study uses previous literature, …
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