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Showing 1 to 20 of 1784 for “"talk"”.
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TWIN TALK
… patterns and practices in everyday twin-to-twin talk. The following research questions guided this study: (1) What pragmatic features of analytic interest are present in twin-to-twin talk? (2) What pragmatic features of analytic interest are present when twins interact with other members of the …
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Journalism
This dissertation offers a re-examination of core practices and principles that have survived journalism’s transition to the digital. It reconsiders how we think about three fundamental aspects of reporting -- eyewitnessing, transparency and trauma – and examines them in one of the most fundamental …
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Things that talk
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.
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How Parents and Their Adolescent Children "Talk the Talk" in Religious Conversations
This study builds on previous research regarding parent-child religious conversations to explore the elements and bidirectional processes of parent-adolescent religious conversations. It employs qualitative analyses of interviews with highly religious parents and adolescents representing the major …
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Vagueness in mathematics talk
… vagueness is commonplace when people talk about mathematics. In this thesis, I examine the circumstances in which vagueness arises in mathematics talk, and consider the practical purposes which speakers achieve by means of vague utterances in this context. The empirical database, which …
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Talk About the Weather
Short story collection.
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Talk About the Weather
Short story collection.
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Cheap-talk pregame communication
… a form of pre-game communication, namely, cheap-talk. The framework first proposed by Farrell (1987) is extended to symmetric games with a finite but otherwise arbitrary number of actions. An alternative theory of cheap-talk pre-game communication is proposed and its effects characterized. …
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"Do you talk English?": A collocational analysis of "to speak" and "to talk"
… ESL learners are the verbs "to speak" and "to talk." A collocational analysis of these verbs will be provided along with implications and suggestions for teaching-collocations in the ESL classroom.
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What we talk about when we talk about the locker room: Women sportswriters' stories
Every week, hundreds of women sportswriters enter male sports locker rooms without incident as they gather post-game quotes from players and coaches. Locker room interactions comprise less than 10 per cent of most women sportswriters' jobs yet they have profoundly impacted women writers' lives.
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Implementing Mediators with Cheap Talk
In this work we study the effects of cheap-talk in games with rational agents. We begin by showing that all asynchronous interactions between $n$ players and a mediator can be $t$-bisimulated without the mediator if $n > 4t$. Intuitively, $t$-bisimulation means that for any deviation performed by …
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Complaint Talk in Korean Conversation
… of complaining is done in naturally-occurring talk, and hence with legitimate bases for their teaching and materials development.
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Cheap talk and costly consequences
In this thesis, we use data on political interactions between country pairs to predict changes in trade. We implemented and applied a new feature selection algorithm called Boruta to build a compact set of predictor variables for this task. After finding a consistent set of features we used a …
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Street talk : revitalizing Main Street
Thesis (M. Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1979.
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Computers, talk and learning : using computers to help coach reasoning through talk across the curriculum
… of computers as a support for reasoning through talk in the classroom. A second, closely linked, theme is the role of reasoning through talk in general intellectual development.<br></br><br></br>In the first part of the thesis the two areas of the teaching of thinking skills and the use of …
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The impacts of exposure to fat talk and fat talk challenging through social media on women
Fat talk, conversations including peers mutually degrading their own bodies, has become increasingly commonplace among women in the United States (U.S.). Decades of research has revealed fat talk conversations result in increased body dissatisfaction. With the popularity of social networking sites, …
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The impacts of exposure to fat talk and fat talk challenging through social media on women
Fat talk, conversations including peers mutually degrading their own bodies, has become increasingly commonplace among women in the United States (U.S.). Decades of research has revealed fat talk conversations result in increased body dissatisfaction. With the popularity of social networking sites, …
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Pain talk in oncology outpatient clinics.
… doctors were observed and audio recorded. Pain talk is defined and identified as a substantial topic, occurring in 39/74 consultations. Doctor-initiated questions are the predominant discourse feature occupying over two-fifths of pain talk sequences. Their questions are prominent not only in …
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Unsupervised summarization of public talk radio
Talk radio exerts significant influence on the political and social dynamics of the United States, but labor-intensive data collection and curation processes have prevented previous works from analyzing its content at scale. Over the past year, the Laboratory for Social Machines and Cortico have …
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