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Communicating Epistemic Stance: How Speech and Gesture Patterns Reflect Epistemicity and Evidentiality
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Roseano, Paolo; González, Montserrat; Borràs-Comes, Joan; Prieto, Pilar – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2016
This study investigates how epistemic stance is encoded and perceived in face-to-face communication when language is regarded as comprised by speech and gesture. Two studies were conducted with this goal in mind. The first study consisted of a production task in which participants performed opinion reports. Results showed that speakers communicate…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Speech Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Verbal Communication
How Do Chinese Speakers of English Manage Rapport in Extended Concurrent Speech?
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Zhu, Weihua – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
Little research has focused on extended concurrent speech, unexpected floor taking, or topic switching, since it has been deemed rare (Schegloff 2000. "Overlapping talk and the organization of turn-taking for conversation." "Language in Society" 29(1). 1-63.) or inappropriate (Goldberg 1990." Interrupting the discourse on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Usage, Communities of Practice, Interviews
Syntactic and Lexical Context of Pauses and Hesitations in the Discourse of Alzheimer Patients and Healthy Elderly Subjects
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Gayraud, Frederique; Lee, Hye-Ran; Barkat-Defradas, Melissa – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
Psycholinguistic studies dealing with Alzheimer's disease (AD) commonly consider verbal aspects of language. In this article, we investigated both verbal and non-verbal aspects of speech production in AD. We used pauses and hesitations as markers of planning difficulties and hypothesized that AD patients show different patterns in the process of…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Older Adults, Alzheimers Disease, Patients
Analysis of Parent, Teacher, and Consultant Speech Exchanges and Educational Outcomes of Students with Autism during COMPASS Consultation
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Ruble, Lisa; Birdwhistell, Jessie; Toland, Michael D.; McGrew, John H. – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2011
The significant increase in the numbers of students with autism combined with the need for better trained teachers (National Research Council, 2001) call for research on the effectiveness of alternative methods, such as consultation, that have the potential to improve service delivery. Data from 2 randomized controlled single-blind trials indicate…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Autism, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education
Portraits of Early Moral Sensibility in Two Children's Everyday Conversations
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Wright, Jennifer Cole; Bartsch, Karen – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2008
Two children's conversations with adults were examined for reference to moral issues using transcripts of archived at-home family talk from the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) database (MacWhinney, 2000). Through target words (e.g., good, wrong, mean) in transcripts of two children between ages 2.5 and 5.0 years, 1,333 moral…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Child Language, Moral Issues, Moral Values
Working Together to Make Sense of the Past: Mothers' and Children's Use of Internal States Language in Conversations about Traumatic and Nontraumatic Events
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Bauer, Patricia J.; Stark, Emily N.; Lukowski, Angela F.; Rademacher, Jennifer; Van Abbema, Dana L.; Ackil, Jennifer K. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2005
Mother-child conversations about a devastating tornado and about 2 nontraumatic events were examined to determine whether there were (a) differences in use of internal states language when talking about traumatic and nontraumatic events and (b) similarities in mothers' and children's use of internal states language. At Session 1, which took place…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication