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On the Need for an Ethical Understanding of Health Care Accountability
(2015)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 ... -
Trusting and distrusting in dialogue: A study of authentic medical consultations
(2016)The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to the understanding of trusting as a dynamic relational process that can vary with circumstances. Based on an analysis of a number of physician–patient consultations in a ... -
Meaning Potentials in Words and Gestures
(2016)This paper addresses the question of what and how gestures and speech, respectively, contribute to the construction of meaning. A point of departure of is the notion of “meaning potential” which we apply to both unimodal ... -
An exploration of the nature, functions and subcategories of the discourse functional category Interactive in spoken Xhosa
(2016)It is a generally accepted view among discourse analysts that the so-called ‘discourse particles’ are extremely variable in meaning and multi-functional and consequently highly context-dependent for their understanding. ... -
On the attribution of affective-epistemic states to communicative behavior in different modes of recording
(2015)Face-to-face communication is multimodal with varying contributions from all sensory modalities, see e.g. Kopp (2013), Kendon (1980) and Allwood (1979). This paper reports a study of respondents interpreting vocal and ... -
Multimodal Communicative Feedback in Swedish
(2015)This study investigates multimodal communicative feedback among speakers of Swedish. We find that the most common way of providing feedback in Swedish is by a multimodal combination of a gestural verbal and a vocal-verbal ... -
Multimodal human-horse interaction in therapy and leisure riding
(2015)Horseback-riding in general, and equine-assisted therapy in particular, are widely used for leisure and rehabilitation purposes. However, few scientific studies on human-horse interaction are available. The aim of this ... -
On Stages of Conflict Escalation
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Multimodal health communication in two cultures – A comparison of Swedish and Malaysian Youtube videos
(2017)Youtube video health information about overweight and obesity, was analyzed in two different countries – Sweden and Malaysia. The videos were analyzed by using Activity based Communication Analysis, Critical Discourse ... -
Pragmatics: From language as a sign system to language use
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Interview with Shan Bo
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Fluency or Disfluency?
(2017)In this paper, I investigate the concepts of ”fluency” and ”disfluency” and argue that the application of the two concepts must be relativized to type of communicative activity. It is not clear that there is a generic sense ... -
Is digitalization dehumanization? - Dystopic Traits of Digitalization
(2017)Most phenomena in the world have both positive and negative aspects (pluses and minuses). This is also true of digitalization. However, lately a lot more emphasis has been placed on the positive potentials of digitalization ...
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