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Author : Christine Cheepen
Publisher : Continuum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Predictability of Informal Conversation written by Christine Cheepen and published by Continuum. This book was released on 1988 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Author : Scott Thornbury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052181426X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Conversation written by Scott Thornbury and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive account of conversation in English and its implications for the ELT classroom. After a general overview and definition of conversation it provides the reader with a systematic description of conversational English, from the vocabulary of conversation, to grammar, discourse and genre. This is followed by an informed account of the development of conversation in both first and second language acquisition. It then describes a range of methodological approaches, procedures and techniques for teaching conversation in English. On this basis, an integrated approach to the teaching of conversation is provided, along with practical classroom applications.
Author : Justine Coupland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317876539
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Small Talk written by Justine Coupland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents a new perspective on small talk and its crucial role in everyday communication. The new approach presented here is supported by analyses of interactional data in specific settings - private and public, face-to-face and telephone talk. They vary from gossip at the family dinner table and intimate 'keeping in touch' phone conversations, to interpersonally-focused talk in institutional settings, such as the government office and the university research seminar. Drawing on a range of methodological approaches, including Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics, Interpersonal Communication and Conversation Analysis, the author elevates small talk to a new status, as functionally multifaceted, but central to social interaction as a whole.
Author : Martin Warren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729285X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Features of Naturalness in Conversation written by Martin Warren and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study describes a detailed and original piece of research work, investigating a very important genre of human communication, and that is conversation. It provides a definition of the genre of conversation by describing nine features of conversation, namely multiple sources, discourse coherence, language as doing, co-operation, unfolding, open-endedness, artifacts, inexplicitness and shared responsibility. These nine features of naturalness in conversation serve to distinguish conversation from specialized discourse types. The study illustrates the nine defining features of conversation with authentic conversational data collected surreptitiously in England. While this study is of native speakers of English, the nine defining features of naturalness of English conversation are applicable to conversations conducted in other languages.
Author : Gerrard Mugford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003826121
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Exploring the Power of Social Talk in a Foreign Language written by Gerrard Mugford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the fundamental interactional dimension to foreign language communication, including the establishment, development, consolidation and maintenance of interpersonal relations. It argues that interpersonal language use such as small talk, casual conversation and gossipy talk is not only key to meaningful and productive communication but that it is an essential dimension with respect to successful foreign language interaction and that engaging in interpersonal language is communicatively valuable and worthwhile in its own right. Crucially, it explores how teaching and learning can utilize the role of social talk and relational engagement in helping interactants to express, voice and convey their own values, attitudes and beliefs. Finally, it develops a critical relational pedagogy focused on language speakers’ needs, objectives and desires. Redressing the imbalance between transactional and interactional language teaching, and stressing the importance of phatic and relational language use in helping language users achieve their communicative goals, it will appeal to researchers, postgraduates, and scholars in the fields of education and linguistics.
Author : Jennifer Coates
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470754648
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Men Talk written by Jennifer Coates and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men Talk draws on rich conversational material from a wide range of contexts to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium. Draws on rich conversational material to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium. Collects data from a wide range of conversations, including garage mechanics on a break, carpenters at the pub after work, and university academics chatting after hours. Focuses on stories, which occur within all-male conversations. Makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the intersection of language and masculinity.
Author : J. Coates
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113731494X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Women, Men and Everyday Talk written by J. Coates and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a selection of some of the author's key papers on language and gender, this book provides an overview of the development of language and gender studies over the last 30 years, with particular emphasis on conversational data and on single sex friendship groups.
Author : Jan van Kuppevelt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402039336
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems written by Jan van Kuppevelt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main topic of this volume is natural multimodal interaction. The book is unique in that it brings together a great many contributions regarding aspects of natural and multimodal interaction written by many of the important actors in the field. Topics addressed include talking heads, conversational agents, tutoring systems, multimodal communication, machine learning, architectures for multimodal dialogue systems, systems evaluation, and data annotation.
Author : A. Stenström
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137430389
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Teenage Talk written by A. Stenström and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth study of the use of pragmatic markers by Spanish and English teenagers offers insight into the currently under-investigated area of teenage talk through the analysis of the Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente de Madrid and The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Talk.
Author : Christian Bühler
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9781586030018
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Assistive Technology on the Threshold of the New Millennium written by Christian Bühler and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of assistive technology is influenced by the ongoing and rapid development of mainstream technologies on the one hand and continuing changes to social systems in relation to societal events - such as the ageing of the population - on the other. The articles in this book provide a broad overview of developments in technical support for people with functional restrictions: key technologies like telecommunications and IT are addressed, while low-tech practical solutions are also considered.
Author : Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195357256
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk written by Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn studied stories, topic control, "true" questions, and rhetorical questions in 101 medical encounters in US private-practice settings. In exceptionally lucid and accessible style, Ainsworth-Vaughn explains how power was claimed by and co-constructed for both patients and doctors (previous studies have focused upon doctors' power). The discourse varied along a continuum from interview-like talk to conversational talk. Six chapters are organized around data and include extended examples of actual talk in detailed transcription; four of these data-oriented chapters focus upon dynamic, moment-to-moment use of speech activities in emerging discourse, such as doctors' and patients' stories that co-constructed selves, and a patient's sexual rhetorical questions. Two more chapters offer non-statistical quantitative data on the frequency of questioning and sudden topic changes in relation to gender, diagnosis, and other factors. Contributing to discourse theory, Ainsworth-Vaughn significantly modifies previous definitions for topic transitions and rhetorical questions and discovers the role of storytelling in diagnosis. The final chapter provides implications for physicians and medical educators.
Author : Petr Sojka
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540453237
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Text, Speech and Dialogue written by Petr Sojka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The workshop series on Text, Speech and Dialogue originated in 1998 with the ?rst TSD1998 held in Brno, Czech Republic. This year’s TSD2000, already the third in the series, returns to Brno and to its organizers from the Faculty of Informatics at the Masaryk University. As shown by the ever growing interest in TSD series, this annual workshop developed into the prime meeting of speech and language researchers from both sides of the former Iron Curtain, which provides a unique opportunity to get acquainted with the current activities in all aspects of language communication and to witness the amazing vitality of researchers from the former East Block countries. Thanks need to be extended to all who continue to make the TSD workshop series such a success: ?rst, to the authors themselves, without whom TSD2000 would not exist; next, to all organizations that support TSD2000, among them the International Speech Communication Association, the Faculty of Informatics at the Masaryk University in Brno and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, West Bohemia University in Plzen; ? and last but not least,to the organizers and members of the Program Committee who spentmuch effort to make TSD2000 success and who reviewed 131 contributions submitted from all corners of the world and accepted 75 out of them for presentation at the workshop. This book is evidence of the success of all involved.
Author : Alexey Karpov
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319664298
Total Pages : 831 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Speech and Computer written by Alexey Karpov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2017, held in Hatfield, UK, in September 2017. The 80 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. The papers present current research in the area of computer speech processing (recognition, synthesis, understanding etc.) and related domains (including signal processing, language and text processing, computational paralinguistics, multi-modal speech processing, human-computer interaction).
Author : Ger M. Craddock
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9781586033736
Total Pages : 1130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Assistive Technology written by Ger M. Craddock and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication covers different themes in the field of assistive technology. The theme New technologies will explore the significant advances in technology research & development and how these can be harnessed to benefit people with disabilities. This will include evolving technologies, affording interesting insights into the future. The theme User Centred Approach will look at fundamental ways in which the EU advocate a philosophy of citizenship and governance and how this philosophy can be advanced to ensure that people with disabilities become central to the assistive technology process Another issue that is explored in this publication is Interdisciplinary Approaches which can be developed within assistive technology and the provision of services to people with disabilities. Finally, it concentrates on ways in which practitioners and users, working together within assistive technology, can achieve best practice in the development and implementation of Guidelines and Standards across a broad spectrum.
Author : Maxine Eskenazi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319921088
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Advanced Social Interaction with Agents written by Maxine Eskenazi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents lectures given at the 8th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems. As agents evolve in terms of their ability to carry on a dialog with users, several qualities are emerging as essential components of a successful system. Users do not carry on long conversations on only one topic—they tend to switch between several topics. Thus the authors are observing the emergence of multi-domain systems that enable users to seamlessly hop from one domain to another. The systems have become active social partners. Accordingly, work on social dialog has become crucial to active and engaging human–robot/agent interaction. These new systems call for a coherent framework that guides their actions as chatbots and conversational agents. Human–Robot/Agent assessment mechanisms naturally lend themselves to this task. As these systems increasingly assist humans in a multitude of tasks, the ethics of their existence, their design and their interaction with users are becoming crucial issues. This book discusses the essential players and features involved, such as chat-based agents, multi-domain dialog systems, human–robot interaction, social dialog policy, and advanced dialog system architectures.
Author : Anne M. Nicotera
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351336274
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Origins and Traditions of Organizational Communication written by Anne M. Nicotera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origins and Traditions of Organizational Communication provides a sophisticated overview of the fundamentals of organizational communication as a field of study, examining the field’s foundations and providing an assessment of the field to date, explaining and demonstrating a communicational approach to the study of organization. It provides a set of literature reviews on focused topics written by experts in each area, and links organizational communication theory and research to practice. In reviewing foundational management theory, the book analyzes how early to mid-20th-century management theories shaped contemporary organizations, providing students both with background knowledge of these foundational theories and an understanding of their influence on our thinking and our organizational world. Written at an accessible level for early graduate students, yet still sophisticated enough for doctoral students, the book is ideal for students and teachers of organizational communication and communication history. Downloadable ancillary materials include chapter PowerPoints and a set of instructors' materials containing chapter abstracts, glossaries, discussion questions, annotated supplementary readings lists, and practitioners' corners. Please visit www.routledge.com/9781138570313.
Author : Michael Schandorf
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787565157
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Communication as Gesture written by Michael Schandorf and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critiques current assumptions about 'communication', particularly digitally mediated communication, by re-examining conceptual foundations in rhetoric, linguistics, semiotics, information theory, and cybernetics. The result is a dimensional account of interaction that is at once both intuitive and revolutionary.
