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How to Open Conversations? A Generic Study of the Grammatical Forms, Sentential Types, Semantic Categories, and Social Actions of English Conversation Openings

open access: yesSAGE Open
Conversation openings are crucial for effective daily communication. However, existing research predominantly focuses on their sequential structures, with little attention given to their linguistic features and variations across different genres.

exaly   +2 more sources

A conversation analytical study of call openings in Emergency Medical Service calls where the patient is at imminent risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

open access: yesResuscitation Plus
Background: The Chain of Survival identifies the importance of early recognition of patients who are at imminent risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Kim Kirby   +2 more
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Opening a Conversation on Open Communication Research [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Communication, 2021
Abstract Many disciplines have been debating and enacting a range of policies, procedures, and practices that fall under the umbrella term “open research” or “open science.” Following the publication of “An Agenda for Open Science in Communication”, we invited communication scholars to continue the conversation on what open research ...
Adrienne Shaw   +2 more
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Reclaiming Civility: Towards Discursive Opening in Dialogue and Deliberation

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2021
In the midst of polarization often linked to incivility and a 'call out' culture, this paper re-imagines the role of civility. Moving away from reductionist definitions that claim civility is either oppressive or merely politeness, the authors argue for ...
Jennifer Borda, Renee Heath
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Entity Resolution in Open-domain Conversations [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Industry Papers, 2021
In recent years, incorporating external knowledge for response generation in open-domain conversation systems has attracted great interest. To improve the relevancy of retrieved knowledge, we propose a neural entity linking (NEL) approach. Different from formal documents, such as news, conversational utterances are informal and multi-turn, which makes ...
Mingyue Shang   +11 more
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Opening the conversation

open access: yesJournal of New Librarianship, 2020
This column explores the concept of Open Educational Resources and how it relates to librarianship.  
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Text Message Openings in Mandarin in the Digital Age

open access: yesStudies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL
This study explores the opening sequences of Mandarin text messages on WeChat, focusing on the role of the phrase zaima, meaning are you there? in English, in digital communication. While conversation openings have been widely studied in face-to-face and
Lily Linai Zu
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From appearings to disengagements

open access: yesSocial Interaction, 2020
In this article, we examine openings and closings in video-mediated tele-homecare for older adults in Finland, using multimodal conversation analysis.
Sakari Ilomäki, Johanna Ruusuvuori
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Oklahoma-Auschwitz: America, Kafka's first novel [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2014
Novel America consists of a series of fragments. It is built on the principles of expansion and compression, where the writer describes in detail what happened to Carl Rosmman, the main character of the novel (for instance, the conversation in the ...
Kostić Dragomir J.
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Unpacking the Prison Food Paradox: Formerly Incarcerated Individuals’ Experience of Food within Federal Prisons in Canada

open access: yesStudies in Social Justice, 2023
This paper presents findings from a survey conducted with formerly incarcerated individuals on their experiences of food and food systems within federal prisons in Canada. Beyond affirming the many problems with the quality and quantity of food provided
Amanda Wilson
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