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Christian Tarchi – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
The present study tested the efficacy of an intervention on thinking dispositions on multiple-text comprehension performance. The participants in the study were 75 undergraduate students. First, participants completed pretest assessment tests (prior beliefs and knowledge, thinkinPromoting multiple-text comprehension through thinking dispositions:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Psychological Studies, Thinking Skills
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Pexman, Penny M.; Glenwright, Melanie; Krol, Andrea; James, Tammy – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2005
Around 5 or 6 years of age, children begin to recognize that speakers who make ironic remarks do not believe what they literally say, but children of the same age do not show appreciation for the humor function of irony (Dews et al., 1996; Harris & Pexman, 2003). We investigated 7- to 10-year-old children's interpretations of verbal irony and…
Descriptors: Humor, Figurative Language, Child Psychology, Psychological Studies
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DiNardo, A. Catherine; Schober, Michael F.; Stuart, Jennifer – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2005
In traditional psychoanalysis, patients recline on a couch in a way that prevents patients and analysts from seeing each other's faces. This has been argued to have significant effects, both positive and negative, on patients' treatment. The use of the couch creates an unusual communicative situation in which both parties are physically but not…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Patients, Clinical Psychology, Interaction Process Analysis
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Cain, Whitney J.; Eaton, Kimberly, L.; Baker-Ward, Lynne; Yen, Grace – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2005
This research examined 2 strategies for encouraging children's narratives. Twenty-five European American and 31 African American children from low-income backgrounds (M age = 4.76) participated. Children were assigned randomly to either high or low elaborative narrative style conditions and to either a draw-and-tell or tell-only reporting…
Descriptors: African American Children, White Students, Racial Differences, Discourse Analysis