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M. Meghan Davidson – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
Text social information includes the cognitive processes and social communication skills that support real or hypothetical human thought or interaction. The current measure of text social information is genre. However, genre is a limited measure because of poor operationalization, limited specificity, and overlap with structural and linguistic…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Information Sources, Predictive Validity, Cognitive Processes
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Bangerter, Adrian; Mayor, Eric; Pekarek Doehler, Simona – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Shift handovers in nursing units involve formal transmission of information and informal conversation about non-routine events. Informal conversation often involves telling stories. Direct reported speech (DRS) was studied in handover storytelling in two nursing care units. The study goal is to contribute to a better understanding of conversation…
Descriptors: Nurses, Nursing, Hospitals, Story Telling
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Oberlander, Jon; Gill, Alastair J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
To what extent does the wording and syntactic form of people's writing reflect their personalities? Using a bottom-up stratified corpus comparison, rather than the top-down content analysis techniques that have been used before, we examine a corpus of e-mail messages elicited from individuals of known personality, as measured by the Eysenck…
Descriptors: Personality, Computational Linguistics, Content Analysis, Individual Differences