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Difficulties in interpersonal communication, including conversational skill impairments, are core features of schizophrenia. However, very few studies have performed conversation analyses in a clinical population of schizophrenia patients. Here we investigate the conversational patterns of dialogues in schizophrenia patients to assess possible associations with symptom dimensions, subjective self-disturbances and social functioning. Thirty-five schizophrenia patients were administered the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), the Clinical Language Disorder Rating Scale (CLANG), the Scale for the Assessment of Thought, Language and Communication (TLC), the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience Scale (EASE), and the Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale (SOFAS). Moreover, participants underwent a recorded semi-structured interview, to extract conversational variables. Conversational data were associated with negative symptoms and social functioning, but not with positive or disorganization symptoms. A significant positive correlation was found between “pause duration” and the EASE item “Spatialization of thought”. The present study suggests an association between conversational patterns and negative symptom dimension of schizophrenia. Moreover, our findings evoke a relationship between the natural fluidity of conversation and of the natural unraveling of thoughts.

What happens when people communicate or dialogue with each other? This is the daunting question that this book proposes to address by starting from a controversial hypothesis: What if human interactants were not the only ones to be considered, paraphrasing Austin (1962), as \"doing things with words\"? That is, what if other \"things\" could also be granted the status of agents in a dialogical situation? Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, incarnation, and ventriloquism proposes to explore this unique hypothesis by mobilizing metaphorically the notion of ventriloquism. According to this ventriloqual perspective, interactions are never purely local, but dislocal, that is, they constantly mobilize figures (collectives, principles, values, emotions, etc.) that incarnate themselves in people's discussions. This highly original book, which develops the analytical, practical and ethical dimensions of such a theoretical positioning, may be of interest to communication scholars, linguists, sociologists, conversation analysts, management and organizational scholars, as well as philosophers interested in language, action and ethics.

'Conversation analysis' is an approach to the study of social interaction that focuses on practices of speaking that recur across a range of contexts and settings. The early studies in this tradition were based on the analysis of English conversation. More recently, however, conversation analysts have begun to study talk in a broader range of communities around the world. Through detailed analyses of recorded conversations, this book examines differences and similarities across a wide range of languages including Finnish, Japanese, Tzeltal Mayan, Russian and Mandarin. Bringing together interrelated methodological and analytic contributions, it explores topics such as the role of gaze in question-and-answer sequences, the organization of repair, and the design of responses to assessments. The emerging comparative perspective demonstrates how the structure of talk is inflected by the local circumstances within which it operates.

The multifunctionality of pragmatic markers makes it difficult to describe their meaning and functional potential. By taking a broad perspective on markers, classifying them, describing their class-specific properties and analysing individual markers, Karin Aijmer assesses whether generalisations can be made about the prosody of the markers.

In diesem Artikel beschäftigen wir uns mit der Rolle von Materialität im Leben von acht italienischen Familien. Hierzu haben wir, mit einem Fokus auf Räume und Objekte, untersucht, wie sie materielle Rahmen und Grenzen für ihre individuellen und miteinander geteilten Alltagserfahrungen nutzen. Es kamen unterschiedliche Datensorten zum Einsatz, z.B. Audio- und Videoaufzeichnungen von Haustouren, visuelle ethnografische Notizen und Fotos, Beobachtung von Alltagsaktivitäten und das Mapping und Tracking spezifischer Handlungen in wiederkehrenden Intervallen. Zur Untersuchung des Materialitätsbezogenen Talk-in-Interaction der Familienmitglieder nutzten wir diskurs- und konversationsanalytische Verfahren. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Räume und Objekte der Erweiterung der Alltagsaktivitäten der Teilnehmenden dienten: Sie wurden als flexibel in ihrer Nutzung, multifunktional und affektiv besetzt präsentiert. Vor diesem Hintergrund diskutieren wir mögliche methodologische Implikationen für die angemessene Erhebung familiärer Aktivitäten und Erfahrungen in der eigenen Wohnumgebung.

Discursive Leadership: In Conversation with Leadership Psychology presents a new, groundbreaking way for scholars and graduate students to examine and explore leadership. Differing from a psychological approach to leadership which tries to get inside the heads of leaders and employees, author Gail Fairhurst focuses on the social or communicative aspects between them. A discursive approach to leadership introduces a host of relatively new ideas and concepts and helps us understand leadership′s changing role in organizations.

Our perception of our everyday interactions is shaped by more than what is said. From coffee with friends to interviews, meetings with colleagues and conversations with strangers, we draw on both verbal and non-verbal behaviour to judge and consider our experiences. Analyzing Multimodal Interaction is a practical guide to understanding and investigating the multiple modes of communication, and provides an essential guide for those undertaking field work in a range of disciplines, including linguistics, sociology, education, anthropology and psychology. The book offers a clear methodology to help the reader carry out their own integrative analysis, equipping them with the tools they need to analyze a situation from different points of view. Drawing on research into conversational analysis and non-verbal behaviour such as body movement and gaze, it also considers the role of the material world in our interactions, exploring how we use space and objects - such as our furniture and clothes - to express ourselves. Considering a range of real examples, such as traffic police officers at work, doctor-patient meetings, teachers and students, and friends reading magazines together, the book offers lively demonstrations of multimodal discourse at work. Illustrated throughout and featuring a mini-glossary in each chapter, further reading, and advice on practical issues such as making transcriptions and video and audio recordings, this practical guide is an essential resource for anyone interested in the multiple modes of human interaction. Sigrid Norris is based in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University, USA, where she received her PhD. Her research interests include identity construction and cross cultural communication from a multimodal perspective. 1. Multimodal interaction 2. Communicative modes 2.1 Spoken language 2.2 Proxemics 2.3 Posture 2.4 Gesture 2.5 Head movement 2.6 Gaze 2.7 Music 2.8 Print 2.9 Layout 2.10 Interconnection of modes 3. Multimodal transcription 3.1 Method of video analysis 3.2 Step-by-step transcription 3.2.1 Spoken Language 3.2.2 Proxemics 3.2.3 Posture 3.2.4 Gesture 3.2.5 Head Movement 3.2.6 Gaze 3.2.7 Music 3.2.8 Print 3.2.9 Layout 3.2.10 A Complete Transcript 4. Modal denisity 5. Levels of attention/awareness 6. Semantic/pragmatic means 7. Modal density foreground-background continuum as methodological framework: complex interaction 8. Analyzing multimodal interaction: A postscript

This volume is the first monograph exploring the functions of visual cues in humor, advocating for the development of a non-linguocentric theory of humor performance. It analyzes a corpus of dyadic, face-to-face interactions in Spanish and English to study the relationship between humor, smiling, and gaze, and shows how, by focusing on these elements, it is possible to shed light on the \"unsaid\" of conversations.In the book, the humorous framing of an utterance is shown to be negotiated and co-constructed dialogically and multimodally, through changes and patterns of smiling synchronicity, smiling intensity, and eye movements. The study also analyzes the multimodal features of failed humor and proposes a new categorization from a dialogic perspective.Because of its interdisciplinary approach, which includes facial expression analysis and eye tracking, this book is relevant to humor researchers as well as scholars in social and behavioral sciences interested in multimodality and embodied cognition.

The socially minded linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly expanding. This book provides a critical engagement with this dynamic field of narrative studies, addressing long-standing questions such as definitions of narrative and views of narrative structure but also more recent preoccupations such as narrative discourse and identities, narrative language, power and ideologies. It also offers an overview of a wide range of methodologies, analytical modes and perspectives on narrative from conversation analysis to critical discourse analysis, to linguistic anthropology and ethnography of communication. The discussion engages with studies of narrative in multiple situational and cultural settings, from informal-intimate to institutional. It also demonstrates how recent trends in narrative analysis, such as small stories research, positioning analysis and sociocultural orientations, have contributed to a new paradigm that approaches narratives not simply as texts, but rather as complex communicative practices intimately linked with the production of social life.