This book examines the linguistic and interactional mechanisms through which people bond or feel bonded with one another by analyzing situated discourse in Japanese contexts. The term "bonding" ...points to the sense of co-presence, belonging, and alignment with others as well as with the space of interaction. We analyze bonding as established, not only through the usage of language as a foregrounded code, but also through multi-layered contexts shared on the interactional, corporeal, and socio-cultural levels. The volume comprises twelve chapters examining the processes of bonding (and un-bonding) using situated discourse taken from rich ethnographic data including police suspect interrogations, Skype-mediated family conversations, theatrical rehearsals, storytelling, business email correspondence and advertisements. While the book focuses on processes of bonding in Japanese discourse, the concept of bonding can be applied universally in analyzing the co-creation of semiotic, pragmatic, and communal space in situated discourse.
Alignment in social interactions Gallotti, M.; Fairhurst, M.T.; Frith, C.D.
Consciousness and cognition,
February 2017, 2017-02-00, 20170201, Letnik:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
•A new approach to social cognition in terms of mental alignment is proposed.•The dynamic and graded exchange of information between agents creates alignment.•Not all forms of joint action in which ...the agents align will turn out to be social interactions.•Shared goals are not needed for mutual alignment to occur.•Two important theoretical developments follow from focusing on processes of mental alignment.
According to the prevailing paradigm in social-cognitive neuroscience, the mental states of individuals become shared when they adapt to each other in the pursuit of a shared goal. We challenge this view by proposing an alternative approach to the cognitive foundations of social interactions. The central claim of this paper is that social cognition concerns the graded and dynamic process of alignment of individual minds, even in the absence of a shared goal. When individuals reciprocally exchange information about each other's minds processes of alignment unfold over time and across space, creating a social interaction. Not all cases of joint action involve such reciprocal exchange of information. To understand the nature of social interactions, then, we propose that attention should be focused on the manner in which people align words and thoughts, bodily postures and movements, in order to take one another into account and to make full use of socially relevant information.
In Guarayos, as in much of the Bolivian lowlands, land grabbing and concentration is the basis on which economic and political power rests. ...the structure of land tenure is fundamental in the ...configuration of social relations, since the farm forms an economic, social and cultural space. The objective of the article is an analysis of the Guarayos' legal access to land, through the so-called agrarian unions or peasant communities in application of the agrarian reform approved by the government of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement in 1953. Y, quinto, que la comercialización de los productos obtenidos (quesos, mantequilla y carne de res) se efectuó en las localidades guarayas y, en algunos casos, en los mercados de la capital cruceña.9 Constaté que, a lo largo del período analizado (1953-1970), la única solicitud efectuada por pobladores guarayos fue interpuesta en 1968 por el Sindicato San Pablo, del que formaban parte 90 pobladores.
To analyze the association between communicative competence self-assessment and interpersonal communication self-perception and voice symptoms in university professors.
Cross-sectional, analytical, ...observational study in 322 professors, who answered sociodemographic and occupational questions and three self-perception protocols: Self-Assessment of Communication Competence (SACCom), Interpersonal Communication Competence Scale (ICCS), and Voice Symptom Scale (VoiSS). The dependent variable was SACCom’s yes/no answers. Univariate and multivariate descriptive and inferential data analyses were performed through logistic regression.
Most professors were females (55.3%), worked 40 hours (96.6%), and self-reported voice symptoms (72.7%). The largest portion had been in the career for 11–22 years (38.2%). The final multivariate model demonstrated that better self-assessed communicative competence among professors (SACCom) is related to an absence of voice complaints (odds ratio (OR) = 2.17; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.29–3.65) and better self-perceived interpersonal communication (ICCS) (OR = 1.05; 95% CI 1.02–1.08). The older the professor (OR = 1.03; 95% CI 1.01–1.06), the better their communicative competence (SACCom).
Study professors’ self-assessed communicative competence is predominantly high. Those with a better communicative competence self-assessment are older and vocally healthy and self-perceive greater interpersonal communication skills.
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