Gabriella Rundblad,Huijun Chen
Gabriella Rundblad
Receiving accurate and timely advice about extreme weather events can impact a person's likelihood to survive, cope with and minimise exposure. Advice-giving seems to be a common interpersonal strategy in weather commentaries in many Chines...
Laughter and the Management of Divergent Positions in Peer Review Interactions [0.03%]
欢笑与同行评审互动中对立立场的管理
Joshua Raclaw,Cecilia E Ford
Joshua Raclaw
In this paper we focus on how participants in peer review interactions use laughter as a resource as they publicly report divergence of evaluative positions, divergence that is typical in the give and take of joint grant evaluation. Using t...
Third Party Interaction in the Medical Context: Code-switching and Control [0.03%]
医学情境中第三方的互动：代码混用与控制感
Caroline H Vickers,Ryan Goble,Sharon K Deckert
Caroline H Vickers
The purpose of this paper is to examine the micro-interactional co-construction of power within Spanish language concordant medical consultations in California involving a third party family member. Findings indicate the third party instiga...
Morton Ann Gemsbacher,Rachel R W Robertson
Morton Ann Gemsbacher
In this paper, we describe the crucial role that suppression plays in many aspects of language comprehension. We define suppression as a general, cognitive mechanism, the purpose of which is to attenuate the interference caused by the activ...
Nitya Sethuraman,Linda B Smith
Nitya Sethuraman
Speakers of English and Tamil differ widely in which relational roles they overtly express with a verb. This study provides new information about how speakers of these languages differ in their descriptions of the same scenes and how explic...
Pronouns in Catalan: Games of Partial Information and the Use of Linguistic Resources [0.03%]
加泰罗尼亚语中的代词：有限信息下的博弈和语言资源的运用
Laia Mayol,Robin Clark
Laia Mayol
This paper investigates the variation between null and overt subject pronouns in Catalan, a null subject language. We account for this variation in game-theoretical terms: that is, we analyze the distribution of both overt and null pronouns...