scholarly journals Linguocognitive Conflict of Digital and Pre-Digital Thinking in Online Educational Discourse During the Pandemic: Social Danger or a New Challenge?

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 1517-1537
Author(s):  
Irina S. Karabulatova ◽  
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Ainash K. Aipova ◽  
Saad Masood Butt ◽  
Stefania Amiridou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Educational Communication ◽  
International Study ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Cultural Conflicts ◽  
Language Behavior ◽  
Digital Generation ◽  
Online Format ◽  
New Situation

The authors analyze the problems of online educational discourse in the context of the linguocognitive conflict of the «pre-digital» and «digital generations» in connection with mediated communication during the COVID‑19 pandemic. Today, society has actualized hidden socio-cultural conflicts that have increased the disharmonious influence on the implementation of online educational discourse in a situation of prolonged self-isolation and lockdowns. The authors distinguish a separate subtype of educational discourse-online educational discourse, it is the result of an interactive process of interaction of subjects in an indirect educational space of an online format, within which intercultural, interpersonal communication, a diverse verbal-paraverbal exchange of information using digital means of communication is carried out. At the same time, the possibilities of the language of the participants of educational communication are evaluated in the context of expressing their communicative intentions. The situation of the pandemic has updated the features in the decoding of information in the «digital generation». The specifics of the speech-thinking activity of the «digital generation» are a pseudo-psychopatholinguistic phenomenon, which requires new approaches to online educational discourse in the formation of competencies. The new situation requires the allocation of other parameters for the psychodiagnostics of norm and pathology in the work of the language and brain. Humanity is looking for compromises for the full-fledged formation of various competencies based on language, using online educational dialogue as optimal in terms of survival during a pandemic. The specifics of the language behavior of the «digital generation» reflect a different type of thinking than that of the representatives of the «pre-digital generation». The article reflects the results of an international study on the formation of students ‘ communicative competence using online educational discourse during the COVID‑19 pandemic

scholarly journals Salesperson authenticity and gender-based perceptions: an international study

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-149
Author(s):  
Michael Stros ◽  
Timothy Heinze ◽  
David Říha ◽  
Bodo Möslein-Tröppner ◽  
Elena Říhová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
International Study ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Gender Effects ◽  
Sales Training ◽  
Sales Effectiveness ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Mirroring the increasing percentage of women in the professional workforce, the number of females in sales has dramatically risen in recent years. The growth of gender diversity within the world of B-to-B buying and selling requires an examination of potential gender effects associated with interpersonal communications. The latter influences perceptions of authenticity, which in turn, influence sales effectiveness. The current study uses an international sample to review interpersonal communication drivers that are associated with buyer perceptions of salesperson authenticity. Gender differences associated with the processing of body language and the spoken word are particularly examined. Results indicate that, in high-involvement sales situations, female perceptions of salesperson authenticity are highly influenced by salesperson body language. Male perceptions, conversely, are more heavily influenced by the spoken word. Implications for sales training are provided.

scholarly journals The role of sex differences in detecting deception in computer-mediated communication in English

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Anna Kuzio
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Deception Detection ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Significant Variable ◽  
Detection Capability ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Detection Probabilities

<p>While  deception  seems  to  be  a  common  approach  in  interpersonal  communication,  most examination on interpersonal deception sees the sex of the interlocutor as unconnected with the capability to notice deceptive messages. This research studies the truth and deception detection capability  of  both  male  and  female  receivers  when  replying  to  both  true  and  deceptive messages  from  both  male  and  female  speakers.  The  outcomes  indicate  that  sex  may  be  a significant variable in comprehending the interpersonal detection probabilities of truth and of lies. An interaction of variables including the speakers’ sex, receivers’ sex, and whether the message appears to be truthful or deceptive is created to relate to detection capability.</p>

What Words Can’t Say

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis M. Elder
Keyword(s):  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ethical Analysis ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Positive Potential ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Positive Effects

Purpose This paper aims to survey the moral psychology of emoji, time-restricted messaging and other non-verbal elements of nominally textual computer-mediated communication (CMC). These features are increasingly common in interpersonal communication. Effects on both individual well-being and quality of intimate relationships are assessed. Results of this assessment are used to support ethical conclusions about these elements of digital communication. Design/methodology/approach Assessment of these non-verbal elements of CMC is framed in light of relevant literature from a variety of fields, including neuroscience, behavioral economics and social psychology. The resulting ethical analysis is informed by both Aristotelian and Buddhist virtue ethics. Findings This paper finds that emoji and other nonverbal elements of CMC have positive potential for individual well-being and interpersonal communication. They can be used to focus and direct attention, express and acknowledge difficult emotions and increase altruistic tendencies. Research limitations/implications This paper is conceptual, extrapolating from existing literature to investigate possibilities rather than reporting on novel experiments. It is not intended to substitute for empirical research on use patterns and their effects. But by identifying positive potential, it can help both users and designers to support individual and relational well-being. Practical implications The positive effects identified here can be incorporated into both design and use strategies for CMC. Social implications Situating ethical analysis of these trending technologies within literature from the social sciences on the effects of stylized faces, disappearing messages and directed attention can help us both understand their appeal to users and best practices for using them to enrich our social lives. Originality/value The paper uses empirically informed moral psychology to understand a deceptively trivial-looking phenomenon with wide-ranging impacts on human psychology and relationships.

Youth and Technology

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-41
Author(s):  
Gerrit I. van Schalkwyk ◽  
Joshua D. Golt ◽  
Wendy K. Silverman
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Socially Anxious ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Anxious Youth

Use of the Internet for interpersonal communication has dramatically altered the lives of youth. Awareness of the unique properties of this style of communication has given rise to both concern and optimism about its developmental consequences. Current findings suggest that the Internet may act to supplement offline relationships and offer some utility to socially anxious youth, with relatively limited evidence for adverse effects on psychological well-being. However, there continue to be concerns about how Internet-mediated communication may affect certain vulnerable groups. In addition, although this technology may provide a new platform for sharing of information, current data points to negative consequences for overall academic performance. Further study is indicated given the complexity of this area.

scholarly journals VERBAL POLITENESS AS A REGULATOR OF VERBAL INTERACTIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 5894-5902
Author(s):  
Shamahmudova Aziza Furkatovna, Djalilova Sarvaroy Mekhrojevna
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Hispanic Population ◽  
Politeness Theory ◽  
Verbal Interactions ◽  
Language Class ◽  
Language Behavior ◽  
Politeness Strategies

This article deals with politeness theory which is of great importance in interpersonal communication. Politeness is characterized from the pragmalinguistics point of view, examples are given to demonstrate the presence and absence of politeness in the Hispanic discourse. Suggestions are provided on how to teach students politeness strategies in Spanish as a foreign language class. The necessity of correlating the categories of politeness with grammatical categories and context has been substantiated. This technique will allow foreign students to learn the rules of language behavior that exist among the Hispanic population

scholarly journals Stereotypes

Communication ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Lee Hummert
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Word Choice ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Communicative Behaviors ◽  
Social Stereotypes ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Social Scientific

The study of the relationship between stereotypes and communication is strongly interdisciplinary, involving not only communication scholars from many areas (interpersonal, discourse, organizational, mass media, computer-mediated communication, and so forth) but also social psychologists, sociolinguists, psycholinguists, and political scientists. In particular, the attention to stereotypes by communication scholars and to communication by social psychologists has helped advance scientific knowledge of the influence of stereotypes as cognitions on communicative behaviors—even at the level of word choice—and the equally strong influence of communication in all its forms on the construction and persistence of stereotypes. The research from both communication and psychological approaches has primarily applied social-scientific theories and methods to the study of stereotypes and communication, providing critical insights into stereotyping as an interpersonal communication process in which the influence of stereotypical beliefs is often implicit, that is, outside the conscious awareness of communicators. Media scholars have added to these insights by highlighting the ways mass media reflect and perpetuate social stereotypes. Discourse scholars have contributed yet another important layer of knowledge, showing how writers and speakers subtly implicate and instantiate stereotypes in text and talk. All of these approaches—interpersonal communication and psychology, discourse, and mass media—have considered the effects of communicative stereotyping on individuals and societies, strategies to reduce negative outcomes, and communication as a resource to lessen stereotyping.

Polymedia in interaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 707-724
Author(s):  
Jannis Androutsopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Sociocultural Linguistics ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Empirical Downscaling ◽  
Academic Communication ◽  
Digital Language

Abstract This Special Issue on “Polymedia in interaction” theorizes and empirically investigates practices and ideologies of digitally mediated interaction under conditions of polymedia. We argue that the proliferation of mobile interpersonal communication in the 2010s calls for, and is reflected in, conceptual and methodological shifts in empirical research on digital language and communication in pragmatics and sociocultural linguistics. In this introduction, these shifts are crystallized in five interrelated themes: (1) a turn from ‘computer-mediated communication’ to ‘digitally mediated interaction’ as a bracket category; (2) a move beyond the on/offline divide and focus on the integration of mediated interaction in everyday communication on micro-units of social structure (e.g. transnational families, business or academic communication); (3) an empirical downscaling towards private and small-scale public data; publicness; (4) a shift from the study of single modes of digital communication to polymedia; and (5) a focus on semiotic repertoires and registers of digital mediation. Research that orients to (some or all of) these focal points is compared with other trends in digital language research, including computational methods. The papers in this issue flesh out these five dimensions with findings from qualitative research, based on multi-sited linguistic and digital ethnographies in various sociolinguistic settings.

scholarly journals Challenges for meaningful interpersonal communication in a digital era

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elza Venter
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Main Mode ◽  
Verbal Cues ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Computer Mediated

As digital tools and social networks became the main mode of interaction for many people, interpersonal communication has changed. Computer-mediated communication (CMC) has become more important than face-to-face communication in many contexts. Younger generations prefer CMC. Personal interaction normally consists of verbal and non-verbal communication. Computer-mediated communication lacks traditional non-verbal cues, which may cause misunderstandings, influencing meaningful interpersonal communication. Because of a lack of face-to-face communication, people often present an idealised version of themselves, thus becoming less inhibited involving more inappropriate self-disclosure on, for instance, social networks. The research question for this literature review was whether communicating with others mainly through digital means without adequate non-verbal cues would influence meaningful interaction between people. This study used the cues-filtered-out approach and the social presence theory with a literature review to get some clarity on the above question. The premise of the author was that because of the lack of non-verbal cues, CMC messages could influence the understanding of emotions and attitudes, thus compromising meaningful communication and personal understanding of the other. The outcome was that in today’s world people have to use CMC, but for meaningful interpersonal communication, they should try to combine it with face-to-face interaction.

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