Handheld-Mediated Communication to Support the Effective Sharing of Meaning in Joint Activity

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kibum Kim ◽  
Deborah Tatar ◽  
Steve Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Joint Activity ◽  
Mediated Communication

scholarly journals Interaction of Mother and Toddler with Delayed Speech Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.N. Avdeeva
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Normal Development ◽  
Speech Development ◽  
Joint Activity ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Retrospective Assessment ◽  
Emotional Interaction ◽  
Mothers And Children ◽  
State Of Mind

The article presents research data on the features of interaction between mothers and young children with normal development and with delayed speech development. It was assumed that the differences may manifest themselves in the features of mother-child affection, the nature of emotional and object-practical interaction, as well as in the mothers’ image of their child. The study involved 40 children (20 with normative development and 20 with delayed speech development) and their mothers. The following techniques were used: questionnaire ODREV (by E.I.Zakharova); parent essay "My Child" (incomplete sentences); test of joint activity; a survey for mothers on retrospective assessment of attachment styles; standardized observation of the interaction and affection between the child and the mother. The results of the study showed that the group of mothers and children with normal development mostly demonstrated the secure attachment style. The mothers have an adequate image of their child; show sensitivity, emotional acceptance, ability for positive emotional interaction with the child; emotional communication is in harmony with communication over activities and situations. In the group of mothers and children with delayed speech development the most common is the insecure attachment style; the mothers tend to have inadequate images of their children, reduced sensitivity in interaction, negative feelings, inability to affect the child’s state of mind; disharmony of interpersonal and activity-mediated communication; joint activity is unproductive.

A Multivariate Approach to Lexical Diversity in Constrained Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-194
Author(s):  
Marta Kajzer-Wietrzny ◽  
Ilmari Ivaska
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Multivariate Approach ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Lexical Diversity ◽  
Linear Mixed Effects ◽  
Word Repetition

Empirical Translation Studies have recently extended the scope of research to other forms of constrained and mediated communication, including bilingual communication, editing, and intralingual translation. Despite the diversity of factors accounted for so far, this new strand of research is yet to take the leap into intermodal comparisons. In this paper we look at Lexical Diversity (LD), which under different guises, has been studied both within Translation Studies (TS) and Second Language Acquisition (SLA). LD refers to the rate of word repetition, and vocabulary size and depth, and previous research indicates that translated and non-native language tends to be less lexically diverse. There is, however, no study that would investigate both varieties within a unified methodological framework. The study reported here looks at LD in spoken and written modes of constrained and non-constrained language. In a two-step analysis involving Exploratory Factor Analysis and linear mixed-effects regression models we find interpretations to be least lexically diverse and written non-constrained texts to be most diverse. Speeches delivered impromptu are less diverse than those read out loud and the non-constrained texts are more sensitive to such delivery-related differences than the constrained ones.

Exploring web-mediated communication: A genre-based linguistic study for new patterns of doctor–patient interaction in online environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianna Zummo
Keyword(s):  
Patient Communication ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Medical Visit ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Doctor Patient Communication ◽  
Patient Interaction ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
New Form

This paper questions the nature of the communicative event that takes place in online contexts between doctors and web-users, showing computer-mediated linguistic norms and discussing the nature of the participants’ roles. Based on an analysis of 1005 posts occurring between doctors and the users of health service websites, I analyse how doctor–patient communication is affected by the medium and how health professionals overcome issues concerning the virtual medical visit. Results suggest that (a) online medical answers offer a different service from that expected by users, as doctors cannot always fulfill patient requests, and (b) net consultations use aspects of traditional doctor–patient exchange and yet present a language and a style that are affected by the computer-mediated environment. Additionally, it seems that this new form leads to a different model of doctor–patient relationship. The findings are intended to provide new insights into web-based discourse in doctor–patient communication and to demonstrate the emergence of a new style in medical communication.

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