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Preface of the book "Emotion, Cognition, and Their Marvellous Interplay in Managerial Decision-Making"
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Pre-emptive interaction in language change and ontogeny : the case of [there is no NP]
Full text linkThis study is centred on the pre-emptive dimension of interactional exchanges. Dialogues are not merely characterised by information transmission, they are also constantly informed by pre-emptive attempts to address potential reactions to what is being said. We argue that pre-emptive interaction intersects with intersubjectivity (i.a. Traugott, Elizabeth C. 2003. From subjectification to intersubjectification. In R. Hickey (ed.), Motives for language change, 124–139. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Schwenter, Scott A. & Richard Waltereit. 2010. Presupposition accommodation and language change. In K. Davidse & L. Vandelanotte (eds.), Subjectification, intersubjectification and grammaticalization, 75–102. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton; Tantucci, Vittorio. 2017a. From immediate to extended intersubjectification: A gradient approach to intersubjective awareness and semasiological change. Language and Cognition 9(1). 88–120; Tantucci, Vittorio. 2020. From co-actionality to extended intersubjectivity: Drawing on language change and ontogenetic development. Applied Linguistics 41(2). 185–214) and constitutes an important trigger of semantic-pragmatic reanalysis and constructional change. We provide a corpus-based study centred on the change of the [there is no NP] construction in Early Modern English dialogic interaction. During 16th century, the chunk is originally used in assertions, however it then progressively acquires a new function of pre-emptive refusal. Something similar is at stake throughout the child’s ontogeny. We provide corpus-based data from the CHILDES database of first language acquisition to show that children’s ability to use [there is no NP] to address potential reactions to what is being said occurs only around the fourth year of age, that is when a Theory of Mind (ToM) starts to become fully developed (i.a. Apperly, Ian. 2010. Mindreaders: The cognitive basis of theory of mind. New York: Psychology Press; Wellman, Henry M. 2014. Making minds: How theory of mind develops. Oxford: Oxford University Press). Pre-emptive interaction correlates diachronically and ontogentically with ToM and underpins a projected turn taking of a specific or generic interlocutor as a result of what is being currently said
Entrenchment inhibition : Constructional change and repetitive behaviour can be in competition with large-scale “recompositional” creativity
Full text linkThis paper addresses creativity as inhibition of repetitive behaviour. We argue that entrenchment and constructional change can be in competition with large-scale creative attempts of recomposition of constructions’ internal constituency. After undergoing chunking, the recurrent usage of a construction may be significantly counterbalanced with new attempts of entrenchment inhibition (viz. inhibition of entrenchment). These are cases where speakers opt for more compositional and less predictable ways to express a similar meaning of a conventionalised form. We focus on the constructionalisation of noun–participle compounds (e.g. snow-covered) in the Historical Corpus of American English. During the second part of the twentieth century, speakers increasingly inhibit the usage of conventionalised noun phrase–past participle forms in favour of more compositional strategies involving the same internal constituents. This entails that constructional change not only affects the meaning of the chunk that undergoes constructionalisation but also the way speakers creatively rediscover its internal constituency. These results additionally aim to inform research in cognitive architectures and artificial intelligence, where creativity is often merely considered as a problem-solving mechanism rather than a potential process of inhibition of automatised behaviour
# Living/minimum wage : influential citizen talk in twitter
Full text linkThere has been a major cultural shift away from ׳passive׳consumption to more active production of digital texts by citizens. Yet,this does not mean that we all participate in digital media in the same ways and for the same reasons. Nor does it mean that we all have the same level of access to digital networks. This article seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the diversity and fluidity of citizen participation in digital environments by examining the discourse style of a particular group of digital users, namely citizens whose contributions become crowdsourced to prominence in microblogging. We refer to this form of citizen participation as ׳influential׳, in as much as the discourse of these citizens attracts inordinate levels of attention and can trigger social contagion. We conduct a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of a corpus of tweets posted by a group of citizens who emerge as ׳influential׳ within a Twitter debate about the minimum/living wage. Our analysis reveals that their discourse style is characterised by (i) limited content originality but a high participation rate; (ii) a continuum of thematic engagement; (iii) high levels of emotionality; and (iv) a preference towards stance-taking acts that convey full confidence in one׳s views
The communicative modus operandi of online child sexual groomers: Recurring patterns in their language use
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Managing open innovation projects: an evidence-based framework for SMEs and large companies cooperation
Full text linkPurpose – How can joint open innovation (OI) projects between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
and large companies (LCs) be effectively managed? This study aims to try to answer this research question
with a focus on the critical success factors (CSFs) of such cooperation.
Design/methodology/approach – Based on 40 semi-structured interviews with Italian SMEs and LCs
engaged in various industries, 20 open OI projects involving SMEs and LCs are investigated using a reflexive
thematic analysis, a methodology involving both deductive and inductive approaches.
Findings – Fifteen CSFs grouped into seven categories emerge from the analysis of joint OI projects
between SMEs and LCs. Among them, shared leadership, dynamic decision-making and priority setting
emerge as essential elements at the basis of the proposed SMEs–LCs cooperation in joint OI projects that were
not sufficiently addressed by prior studies.
Originality/value – To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to provide an evidence-
based framework for managing joint OI projects between SMEs and LCs. Relatedly, this study links the
practices and most recurring CSFs that facilitate such cooperation.
Keywords Decision-making, Open innovation, Critical success factors,
Small and medium-sized enterprises, Strategic flexibility, Large companies,
Knowledge and innovation management, Project managemen
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