An activity-based approach to pragmatics

Allwood, Jens

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“…Since a functional segment does not need to be contiguous, segmenting a dialogue into functional segments not only allows segments to be discontinuous parts of a turn and to be interleaved, but also to be spread over multiple turns. The following example shows an occurrence of this phenomenon: (8). The use of functional segments resolves various segmentation-related analysis problems, such as what to do in case a functional unit contains a part which has another (or the same) communicative function, or in case a functional unit is interrupted by a unit that has another function.…”

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Multifunctionality in dialogue

Bunt

2011

Computer Speech & Language

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This paper studies the multifunctionality of dialogue utterances, i.e. the phenomenon that utterances in dialogue often have more than one communicative function. It is argued that this phenomenon can be explained by analyzing the participation in dialogue as involving the performance of several types of activity in parallel, relating to different dimensions of communication. The multifunctionality of dialogue utterances is studied by (1) redefining the notion of 'utterance' in a rigorous manner (calling the revised notion 'functional segment'), and (2) empirically investigating the multifunctionality of functional segments in a corpus of dialogues, annotated with a rich, multidimensional annotation schema. It is shown that, when communicative functions are assigned to functional segments, thereby eliminating every form of segmentation-related multifunctionality, an average multifunctionality is found between 1.8 and 3.6, depending on what is considered to count as a segment's communicative function. Moreover, a good understanding of the nature of the relations among the various multiple functions that a segment may have, and how functional segments relate to other units in dialogue segmentation, opens the way for defining a multidimensional computational update semantics for dialogue interpretation.

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Multifunctionality in dialogue

Bunt

2011

Computer Speech & Language

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“…I enlighet med Grice (1975), Allwood, Nivre och Ahlsen (1990) och Allwood (2000), antas de grundlaggande enheterna i dialog vara gestuella eller vokala bidrag från deltagarna. Termen bidrag anvands istallet for yttrande, nar vi vill inkludera inte bara muntlig vokal input till kommunikationen utan också gester eller skriftlig input.…”

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“…The role of an account from the account giver's perspective is to defend trust given, or to repair it, if damaged. Communication, in general, presupposes rationality and cooperation from both involved parties (Allwood, 2000), and communication providing an account in particular presupposes sincerity or honesty from the account giver and benevolence from the account recipient Allwood, 2011).…”

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On the Need for an Ethical Understanding of Health-Care Accountability

Allwood

Johansson

Olsson

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Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change

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In Sweden, like in many other Western countries, public health care is challenged by increasing demands for care and by continuing budget deficits. Person-centered care (PCC) has been introduced as a new strategy to ameliorate the perceived fragmentation in care and is expected to decrease treatment time, reduce the need for return visits, as well as to increase patient satisfaction. However, the changing clinical practices in the PCC approach are assumed to require new accountability practices. This paper is primarily an attempt to characterize a notion of ethical accountability, i.e., a type of accountability that takes into account the human relational responsibility, partial incoherence, and power of reflection. On the grounds of this characterization, the paper aims to provide a basis, among other things, for a discussion of the possibilities of identifying and empirically studying the multimodal expressions in communication that are relevant for this type of accountability.After an initial discussion of the debate on the limits of viewing accountability as transparency, we then turn to our methodological approach and introduce a conceptual analysis of accountability. Next, we discuss some additional features of accountability.Finally, we discuss the possibilities of empirically studying the institutionalization of ethically informed accountability within person-centered health care.

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An activity-based approach to pragmatics

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Multifunctionality in dialogue

Multifunctionality in dialogue

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On the Need for an Ethical Understanding of Health-Care Accountability

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