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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"situated actions"”.
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Merchant Marine Deck Officer Agency Through Performative Acts
… mimeomorphic (repeatable with some variation) actions that contain no deck officer collective tacit knowledge. I argue that deck officer bridge watch situated actions are mostly polimorphic (actions can vary depending on social context), and these actions are in fact performatives (in an Austin …
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EXPLORING PERCEIVED COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN UPPER-LEVEL L1 AND L2 INTERACTIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
… when encountered miscommunication in interactions. Based on the results, I discuss how English can be perceived and instructed in globalized workplaces and ways to redefine communication skills in professional settings. Although intercultural competence (Deardorff, 2006) is being heavily …
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Accounting for taste : conversation, categorisation and certification in the sensory assessment of craft brewing
… following the trajectory of a beer through these situated actions. The magnification is increased through developing original methods utilising digital pens, and draws on principles from conversation analysis to explore the sequential and categorial aspects of judging talk and its co-ordination …
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BREAKING BREAD, SHAPING UNDERSTANDING: THE ECO-FOOD COMMUNITY AS COGNITIVE SYSTEM
… involved in various concrete physical tasks and situated cognition studies have been done on many types of socially situated conversations, my aim is to combine these two theoretical frameworks to observe people’s embodied interactions in informal everyday conversation as they engage in ongoing …
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Changing society: pioneering women entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia.
… is an essential resource for - and product of - situated actions. This research makes a modest contribution to the long-running discussions on women's entrepreneurship in the context of the Arab world. The findings cannot suggest that it is going to be easy or smooth for future women …
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Micro-Coordination: Looking into the details of face-to-face coordination
… a son how to ride a bicycle. Even mundane actions such as greetings, answering a phone call, and asking a question to ask a question by saying "Can I ask you a question?" are complex and intricate. Actors not only need to plan and perform situated actions, but also need to process the …