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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Bangerter, Adrian; Mayor, Eric; Pekarek Doehler, Simona – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Shift handovers in nursing units involve formal transmission of information and informal conversation about non-routine events. Informal conversation often involves telling stories. Direct reported speech (DRS) was studied in handover storytelling in two nursing care units. The study goal is to contribute to a better understanding of conversation…
Descriptors: Nurses, Nursing, Hospitals, Story Telling
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Chevalley, Eric; Bangerter, Adrian – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Interruptions are common in joint activities like conversations. Typically, interrupted participants suspend the activity, address the interruption, and then reinstate the activity. In conversation, people jointly commit to interact and to talk about a topic, establishing these commitments sequentially. When a commitment is suspended, face is…
Descriptors: Laboratory Experiments, Interpersonal Communication, Models, Behavior Patterns
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Bangerter, Adrian; Clark, Herbert H.; Katz, Anna R. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
Conversation coordinates joint activities and the joint projects that compose them. Participants coordinate (1) vertical transitions on entering and exiting joint projects; and (2) horizontal transitions in continuing within them. Transitions are coordinated using project markers such as uh-huh, yeah, right, and okay. In the authors' proposal,…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Standard Spoken Usage, Interpersonal Communication, Telecommunications