Dissertations / Theses: 'Dialogue analysis'

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Muralidhar, Anjali. "Understanding dialogue: sentiment and topic analysis of dialogue transcripts." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85449.

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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2013.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 52-53).
The field of natural language processing has had success in analyzing sentiment and topics on written text, but similar analysis on dialogue is more difficult due to the fragmented and informal nature of speech. This work explores sentiment and topic analysis on data from the Switchboard dialogue corpus, as well as a dataset of recorded dialogues between parents and children while reading an interactive e-book. The goal was to be able to identify the emotion and mood of the dialogue in order to make inferences about what parents and children generally talk about when reading the book because conversations between an adult and child while reading a book can greatly contribute to the learning and development of young children.
by Anjali Muralidhar.
M. Eng.

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Jones, Cerian E. "Dialogue structure models : an engineering approach to machine analysis and generation of dialogue." Thesis, Durham University, 1994. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5837/.

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The problem area addressed within this research is the processing and understanding of natural English dialogue by computer. The presented work fundamentally constitutes the development of a theory for modelling natural dialogue, and the practical implementation of that theory. There are two major aspects of consideration within the theory: the modelling of dialogue structure is balanced against certain individual factors. The structure of the dialogue is modelled via the mechanism of the Dialogue Structure Models and its constituent parts, accounting for situational context, participant motivation, participant role(s) and other contributory factors. The individual factors, on the other hand, are peculiar to the dialogue currently in progress, and cannot be pre-determined in the way that structure can. These factors include:1. The personal characteristics of the participants (their personalities, backgrounds, interests and belief systems); 2. The overall mood of the participant (how (s)he is feeling today; the emotional state of the participant); 3. Instantiation factors relating to the events and circumstances of the particular dialogue in progress. (For example, how a participant reacts intellectually or emotionally to what the other person has just said).A description of the implementation of this theory is presented, followed by a discussion of the testing techniques used to ensure that the original criteria for success have been met.

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Krebs, Stephanie Russell. "Voices of interfaith dialogue| A phenomenological analysis." Thesis, Colorado State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3635638.

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The purpose of this interpretive phenomenological study was to explore the lived-experiences of students participating in interfaith dialogue at the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) Interfaith Leadership Institute (ILI) in Atlanta. The lived-experiences of the participants were explored though the following research questions: (1) How do participants define interfaith dialogue in their own words? (2) How do participants experience interfaith dialogue? (3) What do participants perceive that they learn or gain through participation in interfaith dialogue? A purposive sample of eleven participants who self-selected to attend the ILI were recruited through the assistance of the IFYC staff. The researcher conducted a brief face-to-face screening in Atlanta with each participant, followed by a semi-structured interview via Skype or phone. Data was analyzed using an interpretive phenomenological approach, inductively looking for themes to emerge. Results demonstrated that the lived-experience of interfaith dialogue was characterized by: (1) the role of the environment, (2) the value of individual relationships through sharing and storytelling, (3) holding an ecumenical worldview, which led to the (4) strengthening of the individual's faith or non-faith tradition. The results of this study support past research on curricular intergroup dialogue and serves as a vehicle to translate similar outcomes to a co-curricular format. Recommendations include: intentionally creating environments to foster interfaith dialogue, expanding formats of interfaith dialogue to include co-curricular options and experiential opportunities, and increasing religious literacy through education and training. In addition, expanding the faith discussion to include the secular and others that do not fit with the current paradigm of religion must be explored.

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Palerius, Viktor. "Affect analysis for text dialogue in movies." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353232.

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With the surge of services offering video-on-demand through streaming and the increased competition in the field, the need for the provider of the service to be able to fit its content to its users is important. Machine learning can be utilized to in an automatic fashion find user or movie patterns by looking at features from its data.In this project I create a model with weighting schemes to find affective content from small texts and then explore the potential to also do this for movies by extracting affective features from the movies subtitles. The affective content is determined by using a dictionary with affective labeled words to in a Bag-of-Word fashion score sentences by a dimensional approach with three dimensions called Valence, Arousal and Dominance (V,A,D). The project also consist of a data gathering where two separate datasets are gathered with already V,A,D labeled data, one dataset is found online and the other is self-gathered. These datasets are then used for validation of the affective model and to find the best weighting schema. The best weighting schema is then used to determine affective content during the duration of a movie and utilized to find interesting segment in a movie but also to compare movies and find similarities.I find that the performance of my model is somewhat decent with best scores on the dimensions Valence and Arousal and that there are small difference based on which weighting schema is used for the model. I find that the model shows potential in the movie domain, by finding interesting segments in a movie but also finding scene-similarities between movies. It does however have its limitation by not being able to distinguish genres and missing affective content expressed through visual or audio cues. Finally I argue my model could be incorporated into a larger machine learning model to determine similarities in movies or find user patterns but it also requires similar models to determine affective content from the audio and visual in the movie

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DiAngelo, Robin J. "Whiteness in racial dialogue : a discourse analysis /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7867.

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Gallagher, Robert L. "The structure of Socratic dialogue : an Aristotelian analysis /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148794983620773.

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Crowe, Peter. "The design of dialogue." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/401.

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With the first commitment of the Kyoto Protocol commencing in 2008, many signatory governments have identified bio fuels as a favoured response to the problem of fulfilling their countries' pledges to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels. Despite the tendency for pressure over climate change to expedite the commercialisation process, detailed evaluation of the claimed benefits, likely efficacy or environmental impact of bio fuels in New Zealand in the form of the Bio fuels Sales Obligation policy (BSO): a mandate place on the Oil Companies to supply a percentage of bio fuel. Systems thinking propound the notion of complex interrelatedness: a pivotal concept in our current understanding of the cumulative effects of greenhouse gas emissions and their relationship to climate change. It also recognizes that the multiple ways in which different stakeholders perceive a contentious question are an integral feature of any problematical situation. By applying systems concepts to qualitative research, Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is therefore particularly suitable for the analysis of multiple stakeholder discourse in this situation. The present study employs SSM to examine stakeholder opinion through the construction of conceptual models in the form of rich pictures and root definitions. The researcher invited diverse stakeholders to ‘see what they were thinking’ and reflect upon the beliefs and assumptions that informed their views with respect to New Zealand bio fuels development. With reference to official documentation arising from the policy development process and through a series of interviews and a focus group, the research examines perceptions of the consultation process on bio fuels development and its contribution to informed decision-making. The study data indicates that the scope of enquiry tended to be restricted by early presuppositions regarding the consultation process and its desired outcomes, which consequently shifted the focus of consultation the enquiry from an assessment of the desirability of bio fuels to an appraisal of the feasibility of government policy. However inadvertently, communication was distorted. The research examines the basic assumptions that shaped the discourse and enabled already established opinions to prevail. Furthermore, the thesis explores how using SSM to surface tacit assumptions and challenge proposed models of intervention can help improve the reflexivity of discourse and decision-making. By ensuring open communication remains at the centre of discourse, SSM could provide a means of establishing productive conditions for learning and co-creative dialogue. Consequently the study has important implications for how the ‘health’ of public discourse in New Zealand might be sustained when addressing other similarly complex issues.

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Finlay, Marike. "Dialogical strategiesstragetic dialogue : a discursive analysis of psychotherapeutic interaction." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=64079.

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Marchenkova, Ludmila Alexandrovna. "Interpreting dialogue Bakhtin's theory and second language learning /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1111777929.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.
Document formatted into pages; contains x, 153 p.; also contains graphics. Includes bibliographical references. Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2010 March 25.

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Richards, Keith. "Deciphering the moment : an analysis of dramatic dialogue for radio /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arr5162.pdf.

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Hall, Michael Fitz-Gerald. "Discourse analysis of fictional dialogue in Arabic to English translation." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.497629.

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Orme, Marianne Koop. "Use of dialogue in Joshua 1-8 a database analysis /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Provencher, Laura Elizabeth. "A Critical Analysis of the Islamic Discourse of Interfaith Dialogue." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193449.

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This thesis presents a critical analysis of the contemporary Islamic discourse of interfaith dialogue (IFD) founded on normative examinations of the Qur'an and hadith. Expanding from this baseline, theories of religious universalism and particularism are engaged as well as underlying themes of humanism, social stability, and acceptance of God's will. These are further placed along a Dove-Hawk framework to demonstrate the patterns underlying interpretations regarding the legitimacy of IFD in situations of conflict. It examines the writings and speeches of nine recent and contemporary Muslim intellectual-activists scholars. This analysis reveals a fragmented discourse, which is generally supportive of IFD, and indicates limits to the religious legitimization of IFD during Christian-Muslim hostilities.

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Thummuri, Siddartha. "Interactive and dialogue based learning in engineering education." Diss., Rolla, Mo. : University of Missouri-Rolla, 2007. http://scholarsmine.umr.edu/thesis/pdf/Thummuri_09007dcc803cb5b8.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri--Rolla, 2007.
Vita. The entire thesis text is included in file. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed November 27, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

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Ong, Benjamin-Hai Leng. "Authority and Agency in Open Dialogue Network Meetings: A Conversation Analysis." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25902.

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Open Dialogue is an approach to working with people and their social networks in times of mental health crisis. The approach centres around principles emphasising the responsiveness, responsibility, and flexibility of the treating team as well as the ability of the therapists to tolerate uncertainty by not rushing decisions on diagnoses or interventions (Seikkula & Arnkil, 2006). Open Dialogue places particular importance on the promotion of dialogue including an openness to hearing and understanding the experience of the client and network members, a commitment to collaborative understandings through the voices of all those present and following the lead of the network, and a willingness to be public with their own thoughts. Open Dialogue focusses on the moment-to-moment unfolding of a conversation and the therapists’ responsiveness to the changing demands of the interaction. This thesis uses Conversation Analysis, an approach that focusses on describing the conversational practices and normative expectations that are present in conversations, and how these practices achieve social actions. The study data comes from 14 hours of video recorded therapy sessions by Open Dialogue therapists (n=12) and their clients and social network (n=36) in a child and youth mental health service. This thesis is organised around chapters analysing how therapists construct proposals to transition to a reflecting conversation, how therapists elicit stance positions and introduce new areas of discussion with multiple participants, the functions of therapists repeating the prior talk of the family, and how therapists construct a reflecting conversation. Throughout these studies therapists oriented to issues of deontic authority, or the ability to determine the future actions of others, and epistemic authority, or who has primary rights to knowledge. Therapists assume deontic authority in nominating topics for further development and selecting next speakers, while also deferring to the epistemic authority of the recipients, and promote particular forms of agency by fostering flexibility in responses. These studies demonstrate some of the ways that therapists manifest dialogical principles in practice and provide a more detailed understanding of the work that is done by Open Dialogue therapists.

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Sullivan, Paul W. "Qualitative data analysis using a dialogical approach." SAGE, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5842.

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Zhang, Candace Irene Rodman. "Language use in two Indiana Monthly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) : a comparative ethnography of speaking." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1115717.

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The present study looks at language use in the worship of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), especially that of two Indiana Monthly Meetings, one programmed and one unprogrammed, located within thirty miles of one another. This study discusses the juncture of language and religion studies, or theolinguistics. The study looks at the Meeting for Worship comprehensively in both settings as a performative event, i.e. at what constitutes error as well as good performance, and the written and unwritten rules for participation therein.A comparative ethnography was done on the two Monthly Meetings. A questionnaire was distributed in both Monthly Meeting populations and the results compiled. Meetings for Worship were taped and transcribed at both sites, and the frequency of Quaker Plain Speech items counted. Monoconc keyword searches of important texts for each branch of Quakerism were done and compared. A glossary of these terms was compiled and Friends' speechways analyzed.Many commonalities emerged in the underlying structure of the Meeting for Worship as an event at both sites, but a divergence in belief influences the religious language items and style used at each site. A model for this divergence, the QPS Continuum, containing the six traditions of Quakerism was constructed, describing the variations as a matter of degree rather than completely separate types.
Department of English

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Kelly, Catherine. "Virtuous speaking and knowledge sharing in group dialogue : a framework for analysis." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2017. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/Virtuous-Speaking-and-Knowledge-Sharing-in-Group-Dialogue(09560f57-72ea-4390-a1cb-a319f24b322b).html.

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The problem of sharing knowledge and creating shared understandings in group settings is well known and has been the subject of study from many angles including management, psychology and epistemology. Each of these disciplines has complex constructs to approach the problem and theoretical recommendations on idealised forms of group interaction which can result in more balanced knowledge sharing. Few of these approaches have been tested in real world group interactions, let alone in groups which are adversarial by nature. The objective of this thesis is to provide a framework for investigating particular theoretical concepts in real world group dialogue which is adversarial in order to assess their impact on the problem of knowledge sharing. The development of the conceptual and analytic framework is a central part of this thesis. It is based on understandings developed within virtue epistemology and dialogical theory (Bakthin, 1986, 1984, 1981). Drawing on Fricker's (2007) notion of a 'virtuous hearer', the analogous concept of the 'virtuous speaker' is postulated, a person who exhibits speech practices which facilitate the emergence of joint understanding. How these speech practices may manifest themselves are investigated in actual adversarial speech episodes, and explored from both a Bakhtinian and a virtue perspective. Speech is tagged first of all with monological/dialogicial linguistic markers, then the key utterances are identified which lie on the critical path to joint understandings. These utterances in turn are tagged with virtue markers. The Excel tool capturing all this data is then used to visualise patterns of speech using a Bakhtinian lens and an intellectual virtue lens. Both categorisation schemes are applied separately and then combined in order to isolate the speaking practices of a virtuous speaker. The analysis revealed that the majority of speech episodes were dialogical overall. However, the speech practices were primarily monological along the critical path to joint understanding. There appeared to be no correlation between the overarching classification of the speech episode and the particular classification along the critical path. This was surprising, as the theoretical literature suggests that joint understandings are more likely to emerge from dialogical forms of interaction.

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Thompson, Reginald Shawn. "Mechanisms for dialogue? : an analysis of comprehensive land claims agreements in Canada." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.620636.

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Afonso, Luis Antonio Eugenio. ""Dialogue de L'Ombre Double", de Pierre Boulez : abordagens interpretativas." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284323.

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Orientador: Silvio Ferraz Mello Filho
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: O presente trabalho tem como intenção fundamental a realização musical da obra ¿Dialogue de L¿Ombre Double¿, de Pierre Boulez, composta para clarinete solo ao vivo, clarinete pré-gravado e Live Electronics. O projeto investiga o processo que o intérprete percorre para vencer os recursos técnicos exigidos pela escrita musical do compositor, com momentos de reflexão interpretativa a respeito dessas exigências estilísticas e técnicas que a linguagem da música contemporânea requer, apresentando algumas visões técnico-interpretativas usadas pelo intérprete na realização progressiva da obra em questão. São apresentadas também discussões entre o intérprete e alguns compositores brasileiros convidados, sobre essas especificidades técnico-interpretativas em trechos desta obra, bem como uma breve descrição das técnicas utilizadas por Boulez tanto para a realização dos trechos pré-gravados, realizados em estúdio, como para a sonorização e a espacialização do som na sala de concerto, no momento da performance
Abstract: The fundamental intention of the present work is the musical realization of the oeuvre ¿Dialogue de L¿Ombre Double¿, from Pierre Boulez, composed for live solo clarinet, together with pre-recorded clarinet and Live Electronics. The project relates the investigation of the process that the performer goes through in order to master the technical resources demanded by the musical writing of the composer, with moments of interpretative reflections regarding the challenges and types of language that contemporary music requires, presenting a few technical-interpretative points of view used by the performer throughout the progressive realization of the researched oeuvre. Discussions between the performer and some invited Brazilian composers regarding the technical-interpretative specificities used in parts of the work are also presented, as well as a brief description of the techniques employed by Boulez for the sonorization and specialization of the sound in the concert hall during the performance
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Foster, Callie Smith. "Twitter as a Platform for Engaging Political Dialogue| A Dialogic Theory Content Analysis of Donald Trump's General Election Campaign Twitter Feed." Thesis, The University of Alabama, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10277489.

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The Internet and social media are tools that possess the ability to make communicating with celebrities, politicians and all types of important figures an actual possibility. This content analysis explores the use of then- presidential candidate Donald Trump’s use of Twitter to communicate with his followers. A random sample of tweets was selected following the time period after the Republican National Convention to a week after the general election. The study relies on Kent and Taylor’s (2001) principle strategies of how to create effective relationship building through dialogue. There is very little research available concerning political candidates and dialogic theory on social media. However, what is found in this study remains consistent with that of similar studies on dialogic theory and celebrities and organizations’ use of social media. Social media as a tool for building effective relationships through the use of dialogic principles is severely under-utilized. Despite the lack of dialogic principles, Trump’s followers remained highly engaged into his tweeting habits, especially with tweets that attacked an individual or the media. The findings prove that these types of tweets were published most often thus lending credence to assert that the aggressive rhetoric was popular amongst his followers.

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Aklar, Zeynep Ekin. "An Analysis Of The Positions Of Turkish Trade Union Confederations Towards Social Dialogue." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610225/index.pdf.

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As part of her membership negotiations with the EU, Turkey is expected to adopt the &ldquo
acquis communataire&rdquo
, which requires her to adjust her administrative structures to European standards in a variety of policy spheres, including the social policy and social dialogue. Within this context, this thesis aims to analyze the approaches of the Turkish trade union confederations towards the practices of social dialogue at the European level, as well as their experiences of social dialogue mechanisms in Turkey through the data gathered from in depth interviews with the officials of the three trade union confederations, TURK-IS, DISK, HAK-IS, and some of their member unions. While all Turkish trade union confederations find social dialogue mechanisms fairly operational at the EU level, in relation to Turkey they all agree that such mechanisms are far from meeting their expectations. Beyond this common point the conceptualizations of social dialogue, interpretations over its structure, functions, and features, as well as the evaluations accounting for its underdevelopment in the Turkish context, show considerable variation across the three confederations.

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Inagaki, Yasuyoshi, Nobuo Kawaguchi, Shigeki Matsubara, Yukiko Yamaguchi, Yuki Irie, and Itsuki Kishida. "Construction of an Advanced In-Car Spoken Dialogue Corpus and its Characteristic Analysis." ISCA(International Speech Communication Association), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/15452.

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Bakhtiari, Koohsorkhi Alireza. "Analysis of the Dirichlet Process Mixture Model with Application to Dialogue Act Classification." Thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2011/28503/28503.pdf.

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La reconnaissance des intentions de l’utilisateur est l’un des problèmes les plus difficiles dans la conception des systèmes de dialogues. Ces intentions sont généralement codés en termes d’actes de dialogue, où un rôle fonctionnel est attribué à chaque énoncé d’une conversation. L’annotation manuelle des actes de dialogue est généralement coûteuse et prends du temps, il y a donc un grand intérêt à plutôt annoter automatiquement des corpus de dialogue. Dans ce mémoire, nous proposons une approche non paramétrique bayésienne pour la classification automatique des actes de dialogue. Nous utilisons les mélanges par processus de Dirichlet (DPMM), dans lesquels chacune des composantes est déterminée par une distribution de Dirichlet-multinomial. Deux nouvelles approches pour l’estimation des hyperparamètres dans ces distributions sont introduites. Les résultats de l’application de ce modèle au corpus DIHANA montre que la DPMM peut récupérer le nombre réel d’étiquettes en haute précision.
Recognition of user intentions is one of the most challenging problems in the design of dialogue systems. These intentions are usually coded in terms of Dialogue Acts (Following Austin’s work on speech act theory), where a functional role is assigned to each utterance of a conversation. Manual annotation of dialogue acts is both time consuming and expensive, therefore there is a huge interest in systems which are able to automatically annotate dialogue corpora. In this thesis, we propose a nonparametric Bayesian approach for the automatic classification of dialogue acts. We make use of the Dirichlet Process Mixture Model (DPMM), within which each of the components is governed by a Dirichlet-Multinomial distribution. Two novel approaches for hyperparameter estimation in these distributions are also introduced. Results of the application of this model to the DIHANA corpus shows that the DPMM can successfully recover the true number of DA labels with high precision

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Zavala, Norma Castro. "An analysis of interactive dialogue journals of English language learners in first grade." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1978.

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Rohde, Hannah. "Coherence-driven effects in sentence and discourse processing." Diss., [La Jolla, Calif.] : University of California, San Diego, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3323581.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed Sept. 9, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-209).

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Linddahl, Iréne. "Validity and Reliability of the Instrument DOA : A Dialogue about Working Ability." Licentiate thesis, Jönköping University, HHJ, Dep. of Rehabilitation, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-783.

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The overall aim of this thesis was to examine the construct validity and the reliability of the instrument DOA; Dialogue about working ability. The theoretical foundation for DOA is the Model of Human Occupation. The instrument is divided into two sections; client self-assessment and professional assessment focusing on the individual’s working ability. The assessments are followed by a dialogue to distinguish goals for the return to-work process based on the client’s own preferences. In line with the theoretical base, the concept ‘work’ refers to both paid work and other productive activities related to work.

In Study I, 21 professionals and 126 clients participated from three clinics in Sweden. All clients were involved as outpatients in psychiatric work rehabilitation in county councils or community services. The results from the Rasch analysis test indicated that items are well separated from each other and generally work together in five unidimensional continuums with the objective to measure abilities related to work. Twenty-nine of 34 items showed goodness-of-fit statistics, which means acceptable infit MnSq values from >0.6 to <1.4 in association with Z values from –2 to 2, and that the five misfit items have to be revised.

Thirty-four outpatient clients and 14 professionals from four clinics within psychiatric work rehabilitation in Sweden participated in Study II. Two reliability aspects were studied: test-retest and inter rater reliability. The statistical analyses used were Spearman Rank Correlation test and Percentage of agreement (PA). Generally, the Spearman Rank Correlation test showed acceptable significant correlations between test retest since a greater part of items correlated “moderate to good” (r = 0.51 – 0.75). In the inter raters´ test PA was good, ranging from 93.1 % to 96.5 %, which is well above the acceptable criteria of 80 %. There were no significance differences between the raters. The study has shown that one item has to revised.

The findings verify that DOA has potential as a means of making valid and reliable assessments of working ability, as described by the Model of Human Occupation, out of both clients´ and occupational therapists´ perspective.

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Marangoni, Melissa. "Ready Player One: The Analysis of Specific Dialogue Translation Problems and Potential Cultural Consequences." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/18346/.

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In a world where we find ourselves constantly talking about “the latest Oscar-material movie” and “that new super cool Netflix series”, it is impossible to deny that the entertainment industry is one of the biggest money machines ever created. The global box office revenue is forecast to reach the 50 billion USD mark in 2020 (Statista, 2018) and the global entertainment market size is expected to reach 114.93 billion USD by 2025 (Financial Buzz, 2018). Throughout the years, accessing media products has become increasingly easier (Parrot Analytics, 2018), to the point where we now have an incredibly broad and commercial-free choice of contents at our fingertips (Abend-David, 2014, p. 293). This is especially true for English-speaking countries, but what happens when media products have to be translated and marketed in countries where English is not one of the main languages? Using Steven Spielberg’s 2018 science fiction adventure movie, Ready Player One (Spielberg, 2018), this study highlights how a cheap and hasty adaption work can heavily affect a media product. This paper also outlines what skills a good translator should have in order to be able to overcome these obstacles. A simple legitimate question that could arise at this point is “Why is it so important?". Movies are one of the most widespread and influential tools when it comes to cultural transmission (Pavesi, 2012, p. 14). Movies mirror reality and their dialogues carry out the same function they have in real life: they establish and sustain social relationships and play a decisive role in making individuals unique (Pavesi, 2012, p. 9). Movies are not just a way to entertain the audience, but also and above all a way to educate it (Swain, 2013). For all these reasons, everyone should have access to the original media product, regardless of what language they speak.

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Scheffka, Karin. "Dramatic Dialogue as Revelation : An analysis of the characters in Alan Ayckbourn's Mother Figure." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Ämnesforskning, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-15481.

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The aim of this essay is to see how Alan Ayckbourn uses language inorder to depict his characters in his play MotherFigure from 1974. By using a pragmatic approach, including Gricean maxims,speech acts and politeness theories, I will examine how the three maincharacters communicate and what conclusions can be drawn from this. First, Itake a look at the language strategies given to each of the characters as theyenter the stage. After that I look at the interaction and the struggle forpower. The conclusion I made is that Lucy has many bald-on records, which makesher role very powerful. Rosemary, on the other hand, maintains her weak statusby using many politeness strategies and vague utterances. Terry, the thirdcharacter, is forced to surrender to the adult-child power struggle that Lucyhas been caught up in.

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Fowle, Mark. "Practices of emancipation : an analysis of security, dialogue and change in post-war Vukovar." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/35725/.

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The thesis analyses the Croatian city of Vukovar as a way of animating theoretical debates about the relationship between security, emancipation and practice. It claims that emancipation must be understood through experiences of security and insecurity as they are lived. Located in security studies, it begins with a critical reading of the Welsh School. Ken Booth's original move to associate security with emancipation opened up new possibilities for reimagining the field and for practicing security, but subsequent developments orientated the security as emancipation move towards closure. A genuinely open way of exploring this move is the context of Andrew Linklater's adaptation of Habermasian discourse ethics. In this way an engagement between Booth and Linklater is opened which runs throughout the thesis. The second part introduces Vukovar. It details the violence of late-1991 seen in the city, and outlines how the emergence of Croatian democracy represents a form of settlement. Yet patterns of memorialisation and reconstruction in Vukovar entrench a pro-Croat narrative of settlement at the expense of non-Croats who are unjustly excluded. Furthermore, interviews with leaders of local civil society, religious and political groups suggest that difference and contestation, rather than settlement, characterise the post-war period in Vukovar. The third part presents an analysis of the emancipatory practices which take place within the local context of contestation. Interviews with NGOs in Vukovar support Booth's emphasis on civil society groups as agents of emancipation. Subsequent interviews challenge his view in important ways as the human limits of emancipatory practices are revealed. However, even when such limitations are taken into account, certain civil society practices show how Booth and Linklater's respective understandings of emancipatory practice are played out in what are termed microdialogic communities. These alternative dialogues open new spaces and allow dominant understandings of the war to be challenged.

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Boyce, Valerie. "Many Voices, Few Listeners: an analysis of the dialogue between Islam and contemporary Europe." Thesis, University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2787.

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Enlargement of the European Union (EU) coupled with immigration and rising transnational flows of people has led to increased contact between different cultures, religions, ethnic groups and diverse languages. Historically, the reproduction of ethnic and racial bigotry from generation to generation has marred the European landscape. Cognisant of this, the EU is committed to the development of intercultural competences and the promotion of intercultural dialogue, involving not only public authorities but also civil society. As part of a strategy to build a cohesive integrated ‘social Europe’, the EU launched the 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (EYID) at Ljubijana in Slovenia on January 8. Beneath the carapace of ‘Unity in Diversity’, the aim of EYID is to promote a better understanding of Europe’s complex cultural environment in an effort to move beyond ‘mere tolerance’. In recent years, however, increasing tensions involving Europe’s Muslim population have been exacerbated by their visible difference, youth riots, terrorism and the current global discourse of “clash”. Considering that Europe’s largest ethnic minority is Muslim, any attempt to foster tolerance through intercultural dialogue could be severely limited by Europe’s ability to sustain a meaningful dialogue with Islam. Thus, this thesis focuses specifically on dialogue with Islam in contemporary Europe. Its aim is to contribute to the present discussion concerning the perceived need for policy makers and citizens to redefine the space/identity allocated to Europe’s Muslim population. Beginning with a brief history of Muslim immigration to Europe this dissertation then analyses the marginalisation of these immigrants by the development of institutionalised inequalities. Pursuant to this is an examination of the scholarly debate surrounding the phenomenon of a nascent ‘European identity’ and its compatibility, to an equally embryonic ‘Euro-Muslim identity’. Using EYID as a tool, this treatise then examines the themes reflected in academic discourse, which emerged from the EU level debates in relation to the acceptance of Europe’s minorities. As Europe attempts to rethink a broader identity by accepting that immigrants are no longer sojourners but a necessary part of Europe’s future, this thesis asks, how meaningful was the EYID to the discourse between Europe’s Muslims and European leaders, policy makers, and civil society?

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Lacson, Ronilda Covar 1968. "Automatic analysis of medical dialogue in the home hemodialysis domain : structure induction and summarization." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34467.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-134).
Spoken medical dialogue is a valuable source of information, and it forms a foundation for diagnosis, prevention and therapeutic management. However, understanding even a perfect transcript of spoken dialogue is challenging for humans because of the lack of structure and the verbosity of dialogues. This work presents a first step towards automatic analysis of spoken medical dialogue. The backbone of our approach is an abstraction of a dialogue into a sequence of semantic categories. This abstraction uncovers structure in informal, verbose conversation between a caregiver and a patient, thereby facilitating automatic processing of dialogue content. Our method induces this structure based on a range of linguistic and contextual features that are integrated in a supervised machine-learning framework. Our model has a classification accuracy of 73%, compared to 33% achieved by a majority baseline (p<0.01). We demonstrate the utility of this structural abstraction by incorporating it into an automatic dialogue summarizer. Our evaluation results indicate that automatically generated summaries exhibit high resemblance to summaries written by humans and significantly outperform random selections (p<0.0001) in precision and recall.
(cont.) In addition, task-based evaluation shows that physicians can reasonably answer questions related to patient care by looking at the automatically-generated summaries alone, in contrast to the physicians' performance when they were given summaries from a naive summarizer (p<0.05). This is a significant result because it spares the physician from the need to wade through irrelevant material ample in dialogue transcripts. This work demonstrates the feasibility of automatically structuring and summarizing spoken medical dialogue.
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Gokcen, Ajda Zeynep. "A Matter of Debate: Using Dialogue Relation Labels to Augment (Dis)agreement Analysis of Debate Data." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1462813013.

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Angel, Botero Adriana M. "The Role of Secondary Orality in the Construction of Factual Discourses about Colombian Corruption." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1353959082.

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Castillo, Heather Christine. "Jane Eyre's Gricean conversational portrait." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1641.

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Reynolds, Christine Hannah. "A critical analysis of cooperative dialogue under the European convention for the prevention of torture." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529860.

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Schlaepfer, René C. "An analysis of the U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue group's consensus paper, "Justification by faith"." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Adams, Allison. "Dependency Parsing and Dialogue Systems : an investigation of dependency parsing for commercial application." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-324859.

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In this thesis, we investigate dependency parsing for commercial application, namely for future integration in a dialogue system. To do this, we conduct several experiments on dialogue data to assess parser performance on this domain, and to improve this performance over a baseline. This work makes the following contributions: first, the creation and manual annotation of a gold-standard data set for dialogue data; second, a thorough error analysis of the data set, comparing neural network parsing to traditional parsing methods on this domain; and finally, various domain adaptation experiments show how parsing on this data set can be improved over a baseline. We further show that dialogue data is characterized by questions in particular, and suggest a method for improving overall parsing on these constructions.

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Tsuruhara, Toshiyasu. "Relational transformation through dialogue : conflict mediation in a secondary school in the UK." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/280235.

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This paper examines dialogue between disputing students and the teacher/facilitator in conflict mediation meetings, and discusses what kind of teacher/facilitator’s actions help disputing students find a constructive solution, or even relational transformation. Key theories that inform my research are taken from Martin Buber and Carl Rogers. Buber argues that a human needs to set him/herself at a distance to see the other as an independent existence, and that humans enter relationship through self-becoming, and confirmation of the other’s existence. This is very difficult to achieve in a conflict situation, but Rogers’ core conditions of Person Centred Therapy: Unconditional positive regard; Empathy; Genuineness, fill this gap. The conflict mediator can help this process. Data for the study is taken from twenty video recordings in a secondary school in England, where diversified students, including those who were born abroad, learn together. I examine the outcomes of twenty video-recorded meetings, grouped into three categories: Relational Transformation; Resolution Only; Conflict not transformed. I describe how I have selected three meetings each (nine in total) for thematic coding and conversation analysis. Elicitive and empathetic facilitation appeared most frequently in Relational-Transformation cases, whereas judgmental and directive facilitation were observed most frequently in Conflict-not-transformed cases. As for student’s actions, openness and expansiveness appeared most frequently in Relational-Transformation cases, and attacking and defiance appeared most frequently in Conflict-not-transformed cases. Resolution-Only cases lie between these two categories. These findings suggest that conflict mediation favours elicitive and empathetic facilitation, and leads to the transformation of students’ relationships. When the facilitator/teacher shows judgment and directiveness, students respond with attacking and defiance, which impairs transformative process. It was also revealed that students were only able to acknowledge the other student’s feelings and experiences after their own feeling had been acknowledged.

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Nickel, James R. "Jesus as teacher in the Gospel of Matthew a dialogue between biblical study and educational thought /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Maurer, A. Caroline. "Peer dialogue at literacy centers in one first-grade classroom." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1211984125.

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Wikström, Viebke Fanny, and Sofia Malmer. "Intertextualiteten i nyhetsmedierna : En fallstudie om hur medietexters samspel påverkar framställningen av Polisens omorganisation i nyhetsmedierna." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-341537.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate, from a dialogical perspective, what messages are conveyed about the Swedish Police Agency's reorganization in the big city press for a limited period in the autumn of 2016. Dialogical analysis provides a tool to not only investigate each text individually, but also to examine the internal relationships between the texts in our selection. The study answers the following questions: What image of the Police Agency's reorganization is conveyed in the media? How does the message about the reorganization of the police agency change by the interplay of the media texts? The result shows that different messages emerge depending on how the reorganization is put into context when different actors' voices and different content topics are highlighted. The results also shows several examples of intertextual relationships between the different texts. Intertextual relationships are shaped when a text uses information or quotes from other texts and puts it into a new context. This study shows how information from a significant news article about the Swedish Police Agency’s effectivity is re-used in other articles and how this leads to a shift of message. The method used is dialogical analysis and partly also a discursive perspective. This study, which emerges from a social constructivist perspective, contributes to the understanding of how media texts interact and the effect this have for the reader(s).

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Davitti, Elena. "Dialogue interpreting as intercultural mediation : integrating talk and gaze in the analysis of mediated parent-teacher meetings." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/dialogue-interpreting-as-intercultural-mediationintegrating-talk-and-gaze-in-the-analysis-of-mediated-parentteacher-meetings(590f73d9-d375-4aa0-a813-a872da49dd19).html.

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This study explores how the positioning of dialogue interpreters is shaped in mediated interaction through the combined investigation of two main units of analysis, i.e. assessments and gaze. The data used consists of a small corpus of authentic, video-recorded, mediated interactions in English and Italian. These encounters take place in pedagogical settings; in particular, the specific type of institutional talk analysed is that of mediated parent-teacher meetings, which represents uncharted territory for interpreting studies. An interdisciplinary approach encompassing conversation analysis and studies on non-verbal communication is adopted to explore how interactants orient to both verbal and non-verbal activities (mainly gaze) in the production and monitoring of each other's actions, in the initiation and maintenance of social encounters, and in the co-construction of meaning and participatory framework. As for the verbal dimension, this thesis focuses on assessments, given that evaluative talk characterises the interactions under scrutiny. In particular, some tendencies (namely upgrading and downgrading renditions) in the way interpreters handle utterances embedding evaluative assessments have been identified, explored and linked to issues of identity and epistemic authority. One of the most innovative aspects of this work lies in the exploration of how positioning is realised not only verbally, but also nonverbally, by accounting for non-verbal features in the analysis of verbal interaction. Although non-verbal features have been recognised as part and parcel of human social interaction as well as important vectors of meaning and co-ordination (e.g. Goodwin 1981; Kendon 1990), their sequential positioning in relation to the production of the ongoing flow of talk and their use by interpreters to complement/replace specific verbal features is uncharted territory for interpreting studies. Since the groundbreaking work by Lang (1976, 1978), little research has integrated gaze in the analysis of the interpreter’s (and participants) verbal output (e.g. Wadensjö 2001; Bot 2005). To enable its investigation, gaze is systematically encoded alongside specific conversational cues via the ELAN software, which interfaces audio-video input in a user-friendlyhypertextual transcription. A specific gaze-encoding system has been developed for triadic interaction, building on Rossano’s (2012) one for dyadic interaction. These symbols have been mapped onto the verbal transcript of specific sequences, with a view to investigating how gaze is used as an interactional resource in conjunction with verbal behaviour when producing such sequences. Through analysis of the actions performed via talk and gaze, the thesis investigates how displays of knowledge and epistemic authority are achieved and the impact of the interpreter’s shifting positioning on the unfolding interaction. The micro-analysis of transcripts is placed within a macro-analytical framework to explore whether interpreters work as intercultural mediators when they display an engaged behaviour and act as ratified participants. Findings show that the specific moves isolated, although trying to establish a common ground with the mothers, do not seem to contribute to participants’ empowerment and participation, thus suggesting the need for a more nuanced conceptualisation of intercultural mediation.

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Magallanes-Blanco, Claudia, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Humanities. "Video, a revolutionary medium for consciousness-raising in Mexico : a dialogic analysis of independent video makers on the Zapatistas." THESIS_CAESS_HUM_Magallanes-Blanco_C.xml, 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/658.

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This thesis examines the use of video technology as an alternative communication medium within a dialogic framework. It explores multiple dialogic encounters and different meanings of dialogue. It analyses dialogues within and around video technology and dialogues with contemporary events in Mexican history. The author argues that these dialogic encounters are contributing to an ongoing process of transformation in Mexican consciousness. The thesis’s theoretical framework draws on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism and employs a dialogic method that emphasises diversity. The author conducts an in-depth analysis of multiple series of dialogues between key people, events and discourses. The author examines the lives and work of a sample of the most significant independent video-makers producing work on the indigenous Zapatista rebellion that began in Chiapas, Mexico, on 1 January 1994.The author focuses on the discourses of independent video-makers looking at the indigenous Zapatista rebels and considers the indigenous uprising to be both a ‘political catalytic event’ and a ‘multi-catalytic event.’ The different dialogues looked at throughout the thesis reveal various processes of consciousness-raising which act in diverse, unexpected and unprecedented ways. The author argues that these dialogues have contributed to a crisis of legitimacy for the hegemonic power in Mexico and have also influenced the way the mainstream media operate, and their power within Mexican society.
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Kemna, Tabea. "Dialogue, Twitter and new technology-based firms : The communication practice on a social medium." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-90998.

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Dialogical communication is considered to be the most ethical way of practicing public relations. Especially social medias’ potential for engaging in dialogue is mostly not exploited to its full potential. This study aims to shed light on new technology-based firms’ use of dialogical communication on Twitter. The focus hereby is on the formal side of dialogue and not on its content. Moreover possible explanations for the presence or absence of dialogue are taken into consideration. To be able to classify the results they are discussed in the context of the Fortune 500 companies’ use of Twitter. In order to do so a content analysis of both the Twitter profiles and tweets of 89 new technology-based firms was undertaken. The results showed that the Fortune 500 companies were communicating more dialogically than the new technology-based firms did. Bigger companies engaged in dialogue more often. The performance was furthermore improved by listening rather than posting. An implication is that a profound knowledge of communication is necessary in order to use the social medium successfully. A pure knowledge of technology was not found to be beneficial for this public relations practice.

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Lysack, Michael David. "Reflecting processes as practitioner education in Andersen and White through the lenses of Bakhtin and Vygotsky." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85021.

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Adult learning models have emerged that help social work students to make links between their lived experiences, narratives, and their developing identity as practitioners. This educational methodology involves students exploring and co-constructing their own personal and professional narratives through dialogue, sharing them within a reflecting team format. Reflecting teams emerged out of the work of family therapist Tom Andersen, and have been further developed for practitioner education by narrative therapist, Michael White. A detailed description of the learning model is provided, with an overview of the orienting principles and some guidelines for application.
The educational practice of reflecting processes is examined through a conceptual framework drawing on the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) and Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934). Bakhtin was a literary theorist, philosopher, and teacher who was interested in language, literature and human consciousness, and was fascinated with dialogue in relationship as a site of knowledge construction as well as a model for understanding the dialogic nature of human consciousness. Vygotsky was a psychologist, cultural theorist, and activist who conceptualized learning as a social process that occurs in relationship. He also investigated language as a psychological/cultural tool, and was curious about human consciousness as "inner speech." Their writings act as a theoretical foundation for the dissertation, providing a series of heuristic devices or lenses through which to view reflecting processes: individual/social, self/other, outer word/inner speech, language, monologue/dialogue, and authoritarian/internally persuasive discourse.
The dissertation includes an alternative to traditional academic rhetorical style in the form of conversations between various writers. Drawing on Bakhtin and Vygotsky, a dialogical genre is developed as an approach to engaging with the texts of Andersen and White. In developing this methodology, the dialogic form of inquiry is expressed in a conversation between Bakhtin, Vygotsky and a student persona. This dialogic genre also occurs as an extended series of conversations in the format of a reflecting process between Andersen, White, Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and a student, Mishka. The dissertation concludes with an overview of Bakhtin's exploration of moving from monologue to dialogue and from authoritarian to internally persuasive discourse, and how this is accomplished by means of the "penetrated word" and transformative discourse in the context of relationship.

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Pillay, Seelan. "A critical analysis of the role of stakeholder engagement in establishing the renewable energy sector in South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25627.

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Stakeholder engagement-dialogue is proposed as a method of responding to the sustainable energy challenges facing South Africa. Establishing the renewable energy sector requires constructive engagement including consumers, energy suppliers, regulators and government. The purpose of this research is an attempt to gain a deeper understanding of the stakeholder engagement process - specifically dialogue - being used by government to establish the renewable energy sector. It evaluates the effectiveness of the current dialogue and the role this dialogue can play in establishing the renewable energy sector. Initially, the study analyses the dialogue contained in fifty public domain internet articles on renewable energy. This data is validated by face-to-face interviews with nine stakeholders. The analysis focuses on comparing the dialogue against an acceptable dialogue framework. Evidence from both sets of data suggests that the dialogue, although inclusive and open, lacks tolerance, empowerment and transparency. The study further found that effective dialogue should contain clarity, policies and trust. Moreover, findings from the research indicate that stakeholder dialogue can play a vital role in establishing the renewable energy sector but this dialogue needs to be with relevant stakeholders. This research adds to the existing literature in dialogue in that it proposes three additional dimensions for effective dialogue. Copyright
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Elliott, Stephen Richard. "Words about pictures, an analysis of dialogue content and process in high school art-viewing sessions." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0004/NQ39030.pdf.

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Difato, Christine Anne. "An international relations analysis of citizenship and intercultural dialogue among minority youth in Berlin and London : a levels-of-analysis approach." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14049.

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Corresponding to the rising threat of terrorism and heightened security concerns throughout Europe, potential parallel communities have come under increased scrutiny and pressure to engage and integrate in the politics and society of the country of settlement. Meanwhile, immigrants and the descendants of immigrants have lived in the countries of Western Europe for up to three and four generations. In this discussion, the tools of intercultural dialogue and citizenship have been proposed to bridge the ‘gap’ between ‘majority’ and ‘minority’ communities, permeating state practices from the national to the local level. This dissertation proposes to contribute to the field of International Relations by examining an often excluded space, that is, the local arena. Moreover, it expands the field in terms of giving attention to the role that youth play in international politics. Using a levels-of-analysis approach and a comparative case study method, comments from students, teachers, and parents in Berlin and London were analysed in keeping with a critical constructivist methodology. I found that, in spite of their different histories and immigration experiences, the perceptions of citizenship and intercultural dialogue have more in common than not. The main contributing factors to their experience appeared to be notions of belonging ingrained in the respective national imaginary in the context of globalization. In each case, the overlapping, intersecting experiences of minority youth cross-cut political and juridical boundaries. Far from being confined to a city district, the ramifications of these intersections are global in scale. From local participation to media culture, minority youth participate in an ongoing navigation of international issues in their day-to-day lives.

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O'Neal, Kathleen. "An Examination of the Connection Between Genuine Dialogue and Improv." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6335.

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The value of improv training extends beyond the stage. Improv has been successfully utilized and applied in a variety of ways in the workplace, school, and community. This study examines the connection between genuine dialogue and improv to determine if improv exhibits dialogic qualities. Three focus groups were conducted with a total of nineteen improv students. Additionally, an interview was conducted with the director of a hospital's Innovation Lab where improv is used in an organizational setting. The conditions for dialogue set by Gordon (2006) served as a guideline for analyzing data. Thematic analysis generated categories used to analyze data. The most prominent of Gordon's conditions for dialogue within improv were Imagination & Innovation, Vulnerability and Immediacy of Presence. The importance of this study, implications and future studies for the connection between improv and dialogue are examined.
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Communication
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