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Wilson, J. "Conversational matters : Towards a theory of everyday conversation." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.374222.
Full textIshii, Ryo. "Designing Conversational Interfaces for Facilitating Conversation using User's Gaze Behaviors." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/180472.
Full textCaron, Melinda. "Conversation intime et pédagogie dans Les conversations d'Émilie de Louise d'Épinay." Thesis, Université Laval, 2003. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2003/20994/20994.pdf.
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Caron, Mélinda. "Conversation intime et pédagogie dans Les conversations d'Émilie de Louise d'Épinay." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/17848.
Full textDans Les Conversations d'Émilie (1782), Louise d'Épinay, femme de lettres des Lumières liée au milieu encyclopédique, propose un modèle d'éducation féminine s'incarnant dans une série de vingt dialogues inspirés des conversations pédagogiques qu'elle a partagées avec sa petite fille Émilie. S'appropriant, dans cette œuvre testamentaire, la structure de la conversation philosophique pour l'éducation d'une fillette et ancrant cette structure dans un cadre intime, elle offre une solution de compromis permettant aux femmes un accès à une formation morale et intellectuelle alliant bonheur et utilité sociale. L'intimité devient le terrain d'élection d'une pensée qui cherche son dépassement dans la transmission générationnelle de son modèle pédagogique et son prolongement dans un espace d'amitié et d'intellectualité féminines. Porteur, en point de mire, d'une réforme des possibilités sociales pour les femmes, le modèle de Louise d'Épinay, grâce à sa forme dialogique, s'inscrit pleinement dans ce que l'on pourrait appeler les "Lumières au féminin"
Cowne, Elizabeth Ann. "Conversational uses of the repertory grid for personal learning and the management of change in special educational needs." Thesis, Brunel University, 1994. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5095.
Full textWall, Marie Lala. "A conversation." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53309.
Full textFujimura-Wilson, Kayo. "A sociolinguistic study of Japanese conversation : analysis of three conversational features." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424931.
Full textNakatsuhara, Fumiyo. "Conversational styles in group oral tests : how is the conversation co-constructed?" Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.499803.
Full textBrassac, Christian. "S'engager en conversation : étude expérimentale de l’engagement illocutoire en conversation." Nancy 2, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992NAN21009.
Full textAs a prototypical form of verbal interaction, conversation is mainly based on non literal meanings. The problem at issue focuses on the link between the speaker and a certain type of non literal speech act: the conversational implicatures: the theory of illocutionary commitment (Daniel Vanderveken, 1985). Born of the philosophy of language, provides concepts which allow to make this question operational. An experience, based on these notions and on a criterion of incoherence of a speaker who denies the non literal speech act concerned, produces significant results on the speaker's commitment to these conversational implicatures, to the more precise, the gradual aspect of this commitment is put forward. More generally, this work contributes to a set of studies aimed to use notions of speech acts' theory in discourse analysis
Clift, Rebecca Jane. "Misunderstandings in conversation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242958.
Full textSt, George E. A. W. "Browning and conversation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332876.
Full textMandelkern, Matthew. "Coordination in conversation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112421.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-207).
I give an account of the meaning of epistemic modals-words like 'might' and 'must', on a broadly epistemic interpretation-and how speakers use them to coordinate on their information. I begin by exploring what epistemic modals mean. Motivated by embedding data which are problematic for almost all existing accounts, I develop a new semantics for epistemic modals which I call the bounded theory. The bounded theory comprises a standard relational semantics together with a constraint which entails that local information is always taken into account in the evaluation of epistemic modals. I argue that the bounded theory makes sense of the subtle embedding behavior of epistemic modals-thus providing an adequate account of their meaning-and sheds new light on the way that local information is structured in natural language. In Chapter 2, I turn to the question of how speakers use epistemic modals to coordinate on their common information. I argue that we can make sense of the characteristic dynamics of epistemic modality within a relational semantic framework (like the one given in Chapter 1), together with a contextualist approach to the dynamics of conversation. The key to doing so is to take the relation in question to be determined by the interlocutors' prospective common attitudes. Chapter 3 explores the contribution of 'must'. Assertions of -Must p-1 and assertions of p alone seem to have the same basic goal, and yet their felicity conditions subtly differ. I argue for a new characterization of those differences, and a broadly pragmatic explanation of those differences based on the approach to epistemic modals advocated in the preceding chapters. In Chapter 4, I return to semantic questions. I develop formal tools to compare the expressive power of semantic theories with respect to the embedding data which they can account for. These tools show that the relational theory can account for all the embedding data which recent revisionary theories can account for, but not vice versa, a fact which necessitates a substantial shift in perspective on the debate regarding the semantics of epistemic modals.
by Matthew Mandelkern.
Ph. D. in Philosophy
HAMAKER, WHITNEY BEEGLE. "Starting a Conversation." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212114650.
Full textLourenço, Maria Luísa Sobreira Gouveia. "Type inference for conversation types." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/3960.
Full textThis dissertation tackles the problem of type inference for conversation types by devising and implementing a type inference algorithm. This is an interesting issue to address if we take into account that service-oriented applications can have very rich and complex protocols of services’usage, thus requiring the programmer to annotate every service invocation with a type corresponding to his role in a protocol, which would make the development of such applications quite unpractical. Therefore, freeing the programmer from that task, by having inference of types that describe such protocols, is quite desirable not only because it is cumbersome and tedious to do such annotations but also because it reduces the occurrences of errors when developing real complex systems. While there is several work done related to session types and type inference in the context of binary sessions, work regarding multiparty conversations is still lacking even though there are some proposals related to multi-session conversations(i.e. interactions happen through shared channels that are distributed at service invocation time to all participants). Our approach is based on Conversation Calculus, a process calculus that models services’primitives based on conversations access point where all the interactions of a conversation take place. In order to test our type inference algorithm we designed and implemented a prototype of a proof of-concept distributed programming language based on Conversation Calculus. Finally, we show that our type inference algorithm is sound, complete, decidable and that it always returns a principal typing.
Keller, Jill Leslie. "Conversational implicature and higher-order thinking in instructional conversations." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185982.
Full textKebbe, Lisen. "Keep the conversation going : a study of conversational spaces during family business succession." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/234472.
Full textJääskeläinen, Petra Pauliina. "Conversation Analysis as a Design Research Method for Designing Socioculturally Contextual Conversational Agents." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Människa-datorinteraktion, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-414120.
Full textGilbert, Henry T. "Persuasion detection in conversation." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2010/Mar/10Mar%5FGilbert.pdf.
Full textThesis Advisor(s): Martell, Craig. Second Reader: Anand, Pranav. "March 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 26, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Persuasion, Persuasion Detection, Hostage Negotiations, Cialdini, Cohen, Cohen's Kappa. Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-75). Also available in print.
Soare, Richard J. "Apartheid : a conversation revived." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305123.
Full text張惟 and Wei Zhang. "Repair in Chinese conversation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30182542.
Full textVilhjálmsson, Hannes Högni. "Avatar augmented online conversation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29649.
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One of the most important roles played by technology is connecting people and mediating their communication with one another. Building technology that mediates conversation presents a number of challenging research and design questions. Apart from the fundamental issue of what exactly gets mediated, two of the more crucial questions are how the person being mediated interacts with the mediating layer and how the receiving person experiences the mediation. This thesis is concerned with both of these questions and proposes a theoretical framework of mediated conversation by means of automated avatars. This new approach relies on a model of face-to-face conversation, and derives an architecture for implementing these features through automation. First the thesis describes the process of face-to-face conversation and what nonverbal behaviors contribute to its success. It then presents a theoretical framework that explains how a text message can be automatically analyzed in terms of its communicative function based on discourse context, and how behaviors, shown to support those same functions in face-to-face conversation, can then be automatically performed by a graphical avatar in synchrony with the message delivery. An architecture, Spark, built on this framework demonstrates the approach in an actual system design that introduces the concept of a message transformation pipeline, abstracting function from behavior, and the concept of an avatar agent, responsible for coordinated delivery and continuous maintenance of the communication channel. A derived application, MapChat, is an online collaboration system where users represented by avatars in a shared virtual environment can chat and manipulate an interactive map while their avatars generate face-to-face behaviors.
(cont.) A study evaluating the strength of the approach compares groups collaborating on a route-planning task using MapChat with and without the animated avatars. The results show that while task outcome was equally good for both groups, the group using these avatars felt that the task was significantly less difficult, and the feeling of efficiency and consensus were significantly stronger. An analysis of the conversation transcripts shows a significant improvement of the overall conversational process and significantly fewer messages spent on channel maintenance in the avatar groups. The avatars also significantly improved the users' perception of each others' effort. Finally, MapChat with avatars was found to be significantly more personal, enjoyable, and easier to use. The ramifications of these findings with respect to mediating conversation are discussed.
by Hannes Högni. Vilhjálmsson.
Ph.D.
Milon, Alain. "L'Art de la conversation." Paris, EHESS, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993EHES0059.
Full textThe art of conversation deals with the opposition between the notions of communication and conversation. Communication meaning the formal and regular interactions, and conversation defining a critical ground where the individual would find its free and full utterance. The art of conversation thus allows to describe a different opposition between "the social" and "the sociable". "the sociable" can be defined from an ethical point of view whereas "thesocial" is limited to a series of fom formalizing and degrading protocols. The problematic of this thesis as indeed the analysis, through different examples, how conversation is achieved and recover its full existence. We start from a theoretical analysis of micro sociology from tarde and simmel in their interpretation of kant's anthropology. From this point of view, kant set precise rules defining "the social" and "the sociable"; this theoretical analysis is use as a support for a more concrete analysis in the following direction : - urban conversation and thestatus of the "stranger" -television conversation and the birth of a public image -cinematographic conversation or commercial communication - company conversion or the myth of critical ground
Luymes, Kenneth William. "How becoming: a conversation." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1314807156.
Full textZhang, Wei. "Repair in Chinese conversation /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20481718.
Full textNunziante, Gabriele. "Conversation Retrieval su Twitter." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2010. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/1574/.
Full textMcCarter, Charles Murdoch. "Humor in Japanese Conversation." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/560774.
Full textPimentel, David M. "Exploring classification as conversation." dLIST, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105879.
Full textJones, Rhiannon. "The artistry of conversation." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2016. http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/31333/.
Full textGu, Yueguo. "Towards a model of conversational rhetoric : An investigation of the perlocutionary phenomenon in conversation." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234037.
Full textBaheti, Ashutosh. "Improving Conversation Quality of Data-driven Dialog Systems and Applications in Conversational Question Answering." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1596469447727479.
Full textMills, David M. "Dimensions of embodiment : towards a conversational science of human action." Thesis, Brunel University, 1996. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5456.
Full textRao, Nema. "Redesigning the Pain Assessment Conversation." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2015. http://repository.cmu.edu/theses/91.
Full textDuffy, Sam. "Shaping musical performance through conversation." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2015. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/9531.
Full textMiller, Catherine (Catherine T. ). "Modeling trust in human conversation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36773.
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If we are ever to have intelligent systems, they will need memory. Memory is the core of learning; intelligence is about entering, extracting, and synthesizing its contents. What makes the memory problem difficult is that memory is not a simple collection of facts. The how and why of where those facts were acquired is a key part of how they are internalized and used later. As a step towards solving this large and difficult problem, I have focused on how people learn to trust each other when they have a conversation. The model I have created represents people as sets of self-organizing maps; each has a map to represent his own beliefs, and a map to represent what he thinks of another person. Beliefs are in this model restricted to likes and dislikes, across a wide range of topics. In this thesis I describe the program implemented in Java to test this model. The model has been tested on four different kinds of conversations. with the topics of animals and cars, to determine whether its behavior looks reasonable to a human observer. In this work I show how a simple, natural model can closely approximate human behavior. without need for tweaking parameters.
by Catherine Miller.
M.Eng.
Kino, Midori. "Topic organisation in Japanese conversation." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/29030.
Full textMadlala, Mbusiswa Hezekiah. "Heavenly conversation in cosmic language." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14406.
Full textThis study focuses on the centrality of the Logos theme in the prologue of the Fourth Gospel. The study demonstrates that the author of John's Gospel is keen to present to his audience the uniqueness of the Word which became 'umuntu' or 'flesh'. Apparently, the author of the Gospel is in interlocution with various strands in his audience who have a different understanding of the Logos. Second, we discern a movement that ascends from verse 12 which is seen as the proof of the prologue. In his ascension, the Logos dwells, embraces, and befriends those who accept him. The dialectic between those who reject him and those who accept him calls for a sociolinguistic approach in order to highlight what the discourse of the author is all about. The methodology that is employed in this study is that of sociolinguistics, and with the emphasis being on antilanguage. John consciously uses a dialogical method in order to distinguish between those who speak the language of the rejection of Jesus, and those whose language is different from the opponents of Jesus.
Sin, Emmanuel J. "Electric conversation of Porsche 914." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40944.
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With energy and environmental concerns becoming increasingly greater issues, electric vehicles are a promising alternative to internal combustion engine vehicles. More research and interest must be focused on battery technology and electric vehicles to make this a viable solution for the future of transportation. This project focuses on converting a 1974 Porsche 914, originally equipped with a 4-cylinder IC engine, into a full electric vehicle. The IC engine is replaced with a 50kW peak, 3-phase AC induction motor powered by twelve lithium-ion phosphate-metal cathode batteries. This paper goes through the conversion process as well as the necessary maintenance and driving techniques required to safely and efficiently operate an electric vehicle. Although the vehicle is complete it is currently in the debugging phase due to unforeseen electrical problems. The vehicle is planned to run by early June, 2007. Despite this setback, the project has been successful in starting a performance electric vehicle team, MIT EVT, and in increasing the appeal of electric vehicles in the MIT community.
by Emmanuel J. Sin.
S.B.
Wielaert, S. M. "'Conversation is a two-way process' : introducing conversation partner training in aphasia in Dutch rehabilitation practice." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2016. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26904/.
Full textChatterley, Catherine D. "Steiner's Shoah : a conversation in silence." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq25958.pdf.
Full textDavis, Trent Boyd. "Conversation and the ethics of discourse." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ39186.pdf.
Full textMitchell, Robert Daniel. "The Wesleyan Quadrilateral relocating the conversation /." 24-page ProQuest preview, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1367834161&SrchMode=1&sid=5&Fmt=14&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1220041911&clientId=10355.
Full textŠurpikienė, Nastasija. "The Pragmatic Features of Spontaneous Conversation." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2007. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20070816_164611-72870.
Full textŠitas darbas detaliai nagrinėja spontaniško (neparuošto) pokalbio pragmatinius bruožus anglų kalboje. Tyrinėjimas apima tokius pragmatinius bruožus kaip atsakomosios reakcijos signalai (backchannels), taisymai (repairs) ir overlaps, kai pokalbio dalyviai kalba vienu metu. Spontaniškiems pokalbiams yra būdingos kalbėtojų kaitos procesai, kurie gali pasižymėti įvairiais kalbėjimo nesklandumais (disfluencies). Kalbėjimo nesklandumai yra būdingi visiems pokalbių tipams (žanrams). Šito darbo dėmesio centre yra faktoriai, sąlygojantys spontanišką bendravimą; skirtumai tarp spontaniško ir paruošto pokalbio; šnekos nesklandumų tipai radijo ir kasdieniame spontaniškame bendravime, ir reliatyvus šitų nesklandumų dažnumas abėjų tipų pokalbiuose. Dažniausiai kalbėtojų kaitos procesų ypatybės ir leidžia atskirti pokalbių tipus ( rūšis). Paruoštame pokalbyje perėjimas nuo vieno kalbėtojo pasisakymo prie kito yra sklandus: vienas kalbėtojas pradėda, užbaigia savo pasisakymą, po to kitas kalbėtojas pradėda kalbėti ir užbaigia savo pasisakymą. Toks sklandumas išplaukia iš kalbėtojų išankstinio žinojimo, ką sakyti ir kiek sakyti. Spontaniškame pokalbyje kalbėtojai tokio žinojimo neturi; bendravime nėra aiškiai apibrėžto plano, dėl to jam yra būdingi kalbėjimo nesklandumai. Buvo analizuoti du spontaniškų pokalbių tipai- iš dalies paruoštos radijo diskusijos ir spontaniški (neparuošti) kasdieniai pokalbiai. Tyrimo tikslai buvo: apibrėžti pasitaikusių nesklandumų tipus radijo ir... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
Dersley, Ian. "Complaining and arguing in everyday conversation." Thesis, University of York, 1998. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2451/.
Full textHeinemann, Trine. "Negation in interaction, in Danish conversation." Thesis, University of York, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399616.
Full textSalas, Nikki M. "Exemplary City Managers Leading Through Conversation." Thesis, Brandman University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10828554.
Full textPurpose: The purpose of this phenomenological research study was to identify and describe the behaviors that exemplary city managers practice to lead their organizations through conversation using Groysberg and Slind’s (2012b) 4 elements of conversation leadership (intimacy, interactivity, inclusion, and intentionality).
Methodology: This qualitative research study was used to describe the behaviors of exemplary Southern California city managers. The counties included in the study were San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino. The researcher selected 10 exemplary city managers that met 4 of the 6 criterion identified as exemplary. The phenomenological research design was selected to explain how these city managers lead through conversation. Data collection included semistructured interviews, observation, and collection of pertinent artifacts. The researcher used the NVivo software to provide analysis of the data and show the emerging themes. The themes were then examined to identify behaviors that the exemplary city managers practice to lead through conversation.
Findings: Examination of qualitative data from the 10 city managers, collected through in-depth interviews, observational data, and review of artifacts produced 20 themes and 299 frequencies within the conversational leadership elements. Ten key findings supported the conversational leadership elements of intimacy, interactivity, inclusion, and intentionality.
Conclusions: The study supported Groysberg and Slind’s (2012b) 4 elements of conversational leadership and identified specific behaviors that exemplary city mangers practice to lead their organizations. The culmination of research identified four conclusions. City managers must (a) engage in conversations that promote trust and listening attentively to engage stakeholders in honest communication, (b) focus development strategies to cultivate a culture of open dialogue and a two-way exchange of information, (c) use strategies to gain active contributors to ensure a member’s commitment to organizational goals, (d) use conversation to create clarity of message, provide focus, and elicit feedback on goals and directions. Recommendations: Further research is needed on city managers practicing conversational leadership in different regions of the United States. Additionally, research is needed on for-profit, publicly traded companies and professional sports organizations and the use of conversational leadership.
Pithouse, Richard Michael. "We need a conversation about development." South African Civil Society Information Service (SACSIS), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008563.
Full textTonsing, Kerstin Monika. "Social conversation at the work place." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24865.
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Jensen, Patricia Jeanette. "Streams of meaning-making in conversation." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1058798485.
Full textBaker, Ann Crooks. "Bridging differences and learning through conversation." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1058882651.
Full textCarabatsos, Eugenie. "We Will Not Describe the Conversation." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2016. http://repository.cmu.edu/theses/116.
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