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A Lexicon for Italian cinema: A conversation about history, theory and critique

2017

This article represents the outcome of a round table organized and conducted by Giacomo Tagliani about the Lessico del cinema Italiano/Lexicon of Italian Cinema (2014–2016). This research and editorial project comprises three volumes and 21 entries that address the history of Italian cinema through an original and challenging approach, namely to detect a list of conceptual clusters able to provide new perspectives over the heritage of Italian films. In this refined version, the authors who took part in that round table, that is, Roberto De Gaetano (also editor of the volumes), Massimiliano Coviello, Luca Venzi and Francesco Zucconi, outline their involvement in the research project, their s…

Le manuel de conversation sur Palerme et la Sicile de Giuseppina Catalano

2018

Le livre de Giuseppina Catalano, Palerme et la Sicile, Causeries familiaires (sic) servant à la conversation française par Mme Joséphine Catalano, édité à Palerme en 1907, s’insère dans une longue tradition de manuels de conversation à l’usage de l’enseignement de la langue française dans les écoles ou simplement en tant que support dans l’autoapprentissage.

Analisi semiotica di una conversazione in treno.

2003

L’analisi sociosemiotica della conversazione nei focus group. Teoria e metodo

2012

La tecnica del focus group è sempre più diffusa in ambito accademico, nel marketing e negli studi sulla politica. Questo volume propone un metodo d'analisi interdisciplinare che mette insieme strumenti e intuizioni di due approcci poco applicati in ambito sociologico: la conversation analysis e la sociosemiotica. Ipotizzando un metodo inclusivo e triangolabile con altri approcci analitici per una lettura sociologica sinergica dei topic affrontati nei focus group, attraverso un’indagine in profondità a vari livelli. The focus group technique is increasingly widespread in academia, marketing and policy studies. This volume presents a method of analysis that merges interdisciplinary tools and …

Predicting Next Dialogue Action in Emotionally Loaded Conversation

2021

This paper reports on creating a neural network model for prediction of the next action in a dialogue considering conversation history, i.e. entities, context variables and emotion indicators marking emotionally loaded user utterances. Several experiments were performed to see how the information about emotions affects the accuracy of the model. For the purposes of these experiments, a dataset containing 206 dialogs in Latvian in the transport inquiry domain was created containing both neutral and emotionally loaded utterances. To see if the proposed next dialogue action prediction model architecture is suitable for other languages, the original Latvian utterances were translated into Engli…

Contribution of Multi-Agent Systems and Fuzzy logic to support tutors in Learning Communities

2016

The growing importance of online training has put emphasis on the role of remote tutoring. A whole new area of research, dedicated to environment for human learning (EHL), is emerging. We are concerned with this field. More specifically, we will focus on the monitoring of learners.The instrumentation and observation of learners activities by exploiting interaction traces in the EHL and the development of indicators can help tutors to monitor activities of learners and support them in their collaborative learning process. Indeed, in a learning situation, the teacher needs to observe the behavior of learners in order to build an idea about their involvement, preferences and learning styles so…

Dialogue Involvement as a Social Influence Technique

2001

When a request is preceded by a casual dialogue, the approached person is more likely to comply than when the same request follows a monologue. This effect appeared to be strong and replicable in a series of field studies. Across experiments, the issues discussed in conversations between the confederates and the participants and the nature of the critical request varied, suggesting that the effect is generalized. In social situations, the two basic modes of communication (dialogue and monologue) are characteristic of different types of interactions. Dialogue is characteristic of encounters with one’s friends and acquaintances, whereas monologue is more prevalent in contacts with strangers.…

Placement of responsibility and moral reasoning in couple therapy

2005

Within the past two decades there has been a growing awareness of the importance of moral and ethical judgements in family and couple therapy. In this article we provide a detailed analysis of placements of responsibility related to blame in one couple therapy session. We suggest that it is important to study therapeutic interaction in situ, when searching for an understanding of moral reasoning in couple therapy and an ethical evaluation of the practice. A detailed analysis of discursive tools used by clients and therapists makes it possible to look at moral reasoning in action as it unfolds within the flow of therapeutic conversation. The findings are discussed in relation to two discours…

‘More homework for me, too’. Meanings of differentiation constructed by elementary-aged students in classroom interaction

2012

Although the necessary role of differentiation in special education is well established in the literature, little is known about its social and peer interaction implications from the student perspective. The present qualitative study aims at offering detailed observational analyses of the meanings that 7- to 9-year-old students give to differentiated instruction in its initial phases in authentic classroom activities. The results were yielded from an ethno–methodological conversation analysis of the video-recordings of authentic classroom situations in a part-time Finnish special education setting (N = 12 lessons). The results revealed that whilst differentiation as a pedagogical solution s…

The Old Guard Under a New Order: K. O. Friedrichs Meets Felix Klein

2018

Constance Reid’s recent tribute to K. O. Friedrichs (Reid 1983) undoubtedly brought back fond memories to those who knew the man and his many achievements (see also Reid 1986). It was a great pleasure for me to interview Friedrichs in January 1982, only about a year before his death. He was already in very delicate health. His wife Nellie (see Biegel 2012) was kind enough to arrange the interview, but warned me beforehand that her husband tired rather easily and was somewhat hard of hearing. Nevertheless, he was extremely forthcoming in discussing his early career with me, and quick to dismiss some of my faulty misconceptions regarding Gottingen mathematics in the 1920s, which was the main …