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Polyphony Bruna; Christopher Kello – Cognitive Science, 2025
Conversational partners align the meanings of their words over the course of interaction to coordinate and communicate. One process of alignment is lexical entrainment, whereby partners mirror and abbreviate their word usage to converge on shared terms for referents relevant to the conversation. However, lexical entrainment may result in…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Lexicology, Indo European Languages, Language Usage
Yaeko Hori; Yumi Sugihara; Li Wei – Applied Linguistics, 2025
In a world with existential issues, inequalities/injustice are (re)emerging in varying degrees around the globe, and yet, each of us strives to sustain our life with our own disappointments/griefs and desires/hopes. Then, identity formation research should elucidate how a human being makes sense of multifaceted voices/dimensions ('selves' and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Students, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage
Reva Mathieu-Sher; Bridget Green; Kara Mcgoey – Communique, 2024
A compassionate care framework considers the neurodiverse needs of autistics and challenges the practitioner to think beyond their own comfort levels, preferences, and understanding of "correct" labels to consider how their language and actions support or create barriers for students. The foundational goals of compassionate care seek to…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Caregiver Role, Caring, Altruism
Snell, Joel – College Student Journal, 2022
Wikipedia defines sycophancy as" flattery that is very obedient" The act is insincere. (https:Wikipedia.org/wiki/SYCOPHANCY) This source lists 15 other words that are alternative phrases such as "yes-man" and "sucking up." Further, there are 10 other related words. It appears to be part of the human condition. Other…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Reinforcement, Verbal Communication, Language Usage
Maranda K. Jones; Megan Y. Roberts – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Caregivers of deaf/hard of hearing infants are faced with challenging decisions regarding their child's communication method. The purpose of the current research note is to characterize the advice that caregivers receive and value as well as the factors that influence caregivers' decision making. Method: The current study enrolled 105…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Deafness, Interpersonal Communication, Decision Making
Rosalva Alamillo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated how comfortable and secure heritage Spanish speakers feel about communicating in Spanish in public spaces of San Diego County, as well as the geographic distribution of Spanish use there. The goal was to determine the prevalence of Spanish use in the public sphere. Adult heritage Spanish speakers completed a survey about…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Language Usage, Interpersonal Communication, Incidence
Guanghao You; Moritz M. Daum; Sabine Stoll – Cognitive Science, 2024
Causation is a core feature of human cognition and language. How children learn about intricate causal meanings is yet unresolved. Here, we focus on how children learn verbs that express causation. Such verbs, known as lexical causatives (e.g., break and raise), lack explicit morphosyntactic markers indicating causation, thus requiring that the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Verbs, Child Language, Adults
Rose Stamp; Duaa Omar-Hajdawood; Rama Novogrodsky – Sign Language Studies, 2024
Reiterative code-switching, when one lexical item from one language is produced immediately after a semantically equivalent lexical item in another language, is a frequent phenomenon in studies of language contact. Several spoken language studies suggest that reiteration functions as a form of accommodation, amplification (emphasis),…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Sign Language, Language Usage
Benny A. Benjamin – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
Shared language comprises a precondition to authentic relationships, including career counselling. Drawing on constructivist theory, this article highlights career counsellors' charge to be sensitive to the unique meanings that clients ascribe to common career-oriented terminology, such as "working with people," "success," or…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Language Usage, Vocabulary, Counselor Client Relationship
Militello, Jacqueline – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
For newly met acquaintances, deployment of a single lexical term, an emblem such as "tech" or "finance," signals where one stands in the professional universe and points to any manner of traits and characteristics or a certain type of person. This positioning and evaluation has pivotal real-world implications for occupational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Professional Personnel, Interpersonal Communication
Helen Hint; Helena Lemendik; Christer Johansson; Djuddah A. J. Leijen – Written Communication, 2025
This article presents the development of a specialized data set for analyzing Estonian metadiscourse markers in academic usage, extending Hyland's interpersonal metadiscourse model to a non-Indo-European language. Our goal is to show how metadiscourse, as a feature of a writing tradition, can reveal aspects of writing in languages other than…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Interpersonal Communication, Writing (Composition), Discourse Analysis
Xiaoyan Li; Ran Sun; Yonghan Peng; Yumin Zhang – First Language, 2025
This study aimed to determine whether there is a correlation between maternal conversational participation and the unconventional language of autistic children, and whether the relative vocabulary diversity between mother and child would affect the relationship between them. Participants were 39 autistic Mandarin-speaking children, aged 3-6 years,…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Participation, Language Usage, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Havva Çigdem Kurt; Emrah Cinkara – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2025
The main aim of the present study is to reveal the relationship between a 4th-grade EFL textbook used in Turkiye and the mediation notion that is given a place in the Companion Volume to the CEFR (CEFR/CV) in 2018. The deductive thematic content analysis method of qualitative research, including techniques such as re-reading and taking notes, was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, English (Second Language), Textbooks
Áine B. Mannion; Catherine Conlon – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2025
Parents describe a want for better sex education for their young children compared to their own myth and silence-led experiences while growing up. However, introducing the vagina has proved a challenging step too far for many parents. This study arose from a secondary qualitative data analysis of 20 focus groups with parents in Ireland about how…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Young Children, Interpersonal Communication, Sex Education
Thomas E. Malloy; Beverly Goldfield; Avraham N. Kluger – International Journal of Listening, 2024
Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) predicts that people adjust their language to match that of the other to promote comprehension, coordinate action, and facilitate harmonious relationships. CAT predicts that mothers will adjust their sentence length and complexity to match those of children. Prior tests of CAT confounded trait-like language…
Descriptors: Mothers, Interpersonal Communication, Parent Child Relationship, Language Usage