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Collaboration under Uncertainty in Unscripted Conversations: The Role of Hedges
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Dahan, Delphine – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
The present study examined the role of hedges in a referential communication task. Pairs of participants received an identical set of cards, each card displaying a geometric configuration (a "tangram"). One participant, the director, instructed their partner, the matcher, to reproduce a series of predetermined tangram sequences using…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Interpersonal Communication, Task Analysis, Role
Behind the Mask: Stuttering, Anxiety, and Communication Dynamics in the Era of COVID-19
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Hamid Karimi; Amir Hossein Rasoli Jokar; Sadaf Salehi; Samira Aghadoost – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: While wearing masks during the pandemic poses communication and social challenges for people in everyday life, those with social anxiety might find them plausible, aligning with contemporary cognitive theories. Social anxiety involves fearing negative assessments and holding a negative self-image. Concealing anxiety symptoms during…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Stuttering, Pandemics, COVID-19
Using Aided Language Modeling to Support Language Learning in an Individual with Complex Communication Repertoires
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Wei, Xing – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In language learning, aided language modeling refers to the method by which communication partners provide models of the communication system used by individuals with complex communication repertoires that involving both symbols and speech. Providing aided language models creates opportunities for individuals with complex communication repertoires…
Descriptors: Models, Speech Communication, Receptive Language, Expressive Language
Systematic Review of Interventions Involving Aided AAC Modeling for Children with Complex Communication Needs
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Biggs, Elizabeth E.; Carter, Erik W.; Gilson, Carly B. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
Building the communicative competence of individuals who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) requires intervention and support. This systematic review examined experimental studies involving aided AAC modeling to promote the expressive communication of children and youth (i.e., birth to age 21) with complex communication needs. A…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Intervention, Modeling (Psychology), Children
Interpretation of Non-Verbal Cues by People with and without TBI: Understanding Relationship Intentions
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Evans, Kelli J.; Evans, David L. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2019
Background: Although long-term social challenges following traumatic brain injury (TBI) are well documented, the challenges of establishing new relationships following TBI are less understood. Aims: To examine how the type of non-verbal cues produced by an unfamiliar communication partner impacts feelings of relationship closeness by people with…
Descriptors: Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Brain, Injuries
The Sarchasm: Sarcasm Production and Identification in Spontaneous Conversation
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Fox Tree, Jean E.; D'Arcey, J. Trevor; Hammond, Alicia A.; Larson, Alina S. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
We tested sarcasm production and identification across original communicators in a spontaneously produced conversational setting, including testing the role of synchronous movement on sarcasm production and identification. Before communicating, stranger dyads participated in either a synchronous or nonsynchronous movement task. They then completed…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Usage, Task Analysis, Interpersonal Communication