Topic Management Constructions

2019 ◽  
pp. 170-179
Keyword(s):  
Topic Management

Costruzioni ipotetiche parentetiche usate come marcatori di cortesia in latino tardo: il tipo si placet, si videtur, si molestum non est

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 477-488
Author(s):  
Chiara Fedriani
Keyword(s):  
Illocutionary Force ◽  
The Other ◽  
Stylistic Feature ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Topic Management

Summary:This paper looks at uses and pragmatic functions of five hypothetic clauses used parenthetically in Late Latin to soften the illocutionary force of potentially face-threatening acts such as orders and requests. Specifically, the data show that these politeness markers typically mitigate a very specific type of interactional move, i.e., meta-textual proposals with topic-management, turn-yielding, and discourseorganizational concerns. Moreover, the corpus-based study has revealed that they are found above all in Augustine’s philosophical dialogues. Evidence from earlier research has shown, on the other hand, that in Classical Latin si placet was used almost exclusively in Cicero’s philosophical dialogues: this suggests a process of imitation within a very specific discourse tradition, where these markers are perceived as a stylistic feature typical of urbane conversations among educated friends.

Familiar communication partners’ facilitation of topic management in conversations with individuals with dementia

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 564-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karinna Hall ◽  
Christopher Lind ◽  
Jessica A. Young ◽  
Elise Okell ◽  
Willem van Steenbrugge
Keyword(s):  
Communication Partners ◽  
Topic Management

Topic Management

2012 ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Hanh thi Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Topic Management

scholarly journals The ‘interrogative gaze’

Pragmatics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Harper ◽  
Sean Rintel ◽  
Rod Watson ◽  
Kenton O’Hara
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Video Communication ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Philosophy Of Action ◽  
The Past ◽  
Topic Management ◽  
Video Calling ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Social Affairs

Abstract This paper identifies salient properties of how talk about video communication is organised interactionally, and how this interaction invokes an implied order of behaviour that is treated as ‘typical’ and ‘accountably representative’ of video communication. This invoked order will be called an interrogative gaze. This is an implied orientation to action, one that is used as a jointly managed interpretative schema that allows video communication to be talked about and understood as rationally, purposively and collaboratively undertaken in particular, ‘known in common’ ways. This applies irrespective of whether the actions in question are prospective (are about to happen) or have been undertaken in the past and are being accounted for in the present or are ‘generally the case’ – in current talk. The paper shows how this constitutive device also aids in sense making through such things as topic management in video-mediated interaction, and in elaborating the salience of the relationship between this and the patterned governance of social affairs – viz, mother-daughter, friend-friend – as normatively achieved outcomes. It will be shown how the interrogative gaze is variously appropriate and consequentially invoked not just in terms of what is done in a video call or making such calls accountable, but in helping articulate different orders of connection between persons, and how these orders have implications for sensible and appropriate behaviour in video calling and hence, for the type of persons who are involved. This, in turn, explains how a decision to avoid using video communication is made an accountably reasonable thing to do. The relevance of these findings for the sociology of everyday life and the philosophy of action are explored.

scholarly journals Courtroom Questioning Adapted to Institutional Power

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Haijuan Hu
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
Topic Management

This paper focuses on analyzing courtroom questioning as a dynamic process of adaptation to the institutional power by recourse to intimidation and topic management. Institutional power is the important factor which motivates the questioners’ linguistic choice. By adapting their questioning to the institutional power, questioners can succeed in bringing the defendant, especially the hardened criminals, under their control so that their authority as institutional representatives will be maintained, which is essential to ensure the solemnity and effectiveness of courtroom trial.

Management Education: The Need for Strengthening the University System

1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-40
Author(s):  
A G Balasubramanian
Keyword(s):  
Management Education ◽  
University System ◽  
Topic Management ◽  
The University

The October-December 1992 issue of Vikalpa had carried a Perspectives feature on the topic: “Management Education: Yesterday, To-day and To-morrow” wherein we had published four contributions on the theme by Samuel Paul, Joe Philip, J K Satia and N R Sheth. In this issue, we carry a response on their contributions. Readers are welcome to contribute to this feature on any interesting topics covered in Vikalpa.

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