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Friendship-building activities: Randomly assigned seating, icebreakers, and games
No full textRandomly assigned seating in educational and professional environments can significantly contribute to the development of interpersonal relationships. Research indicates that proximity and repeated interactions are key predictors of friendship formation. Random seating arrangements encourage individuals to interact with those outside their immediate social circles, thereby increasing opportunities for bonding with new people.
Students seated next to each other are more likely to engage in collaborative activities, discussions, and informal conversations, which serve as foundations for building trust and rapport. Such arrangements have also been linked to a reduction in social anxiety, as they provide a structured setting for interaction with peers. Exposure to individuals from varied backgrounds can foster more positive perceptions of others. In the workplace, similar dynamics occur when randomly assigned seating encourages communication and collaboration, which can improve teamwork and organizational cohesion. However, the benefits of random seating may depend on context. The approach is effective in environments where structured activities encourage interaction, as passive proximity alone does not always lead to meaningful engagement. Additionally, consideration should be given to balancing personality dynamics and individual preferences to ensure psychological safety and comfort.
Randomly assigned seating promotes friendship formation by fostering proximity, encouraging interactions, and reducing social barriers. By combining this practice with structured activities, educators and organizations can optimize its effectiveness in enhancing social cohesion
The effect of closeness on Japanese L2 English learners’ use of emoji
Full text linkThis study investigates the use of emoji by Japanese learners of English in discussion forums. Specifically, the discussion forums refer to online conversations on the LINE smartphone application. The investigations answer the research question: “What is the effect of closeness on learners’ rate of emoji use in online discussion?”. The aims of the study are pursued by gauging learners’ perceived closeness with each other via a questionnaire with five levels of closeness from one to five; the rating of one is the closest and the rating of five is the most distant. Following this, five weeks of online discussions from the LINE discussion forums are investigated, analyzing a total of 123 messages, which contain a total of 10,081 words and 578 emoji. The participants are 25 second-year students who are enrolled at a middle-ranking Japanese university. They are from two classes, consisting of 21 females and four males in total. The investigations find a higher rate of emoji being employed in relationships identified as more distant. The study concludes that L2 English learners may also employ more emoji in distant relationships, where interactants may be attempting to reduce the social distance between each other
Joint Symposium Proceeding: A Case Study on Nonverbal Marker Use Among Young Japanese People in Social Media
Full text link4000000581This dissertation adaptation focuses on the use by young Japanese people of nonverbal signals in interactions on social media. One area in which the language use in social media differs significantly from traditional written language, as seen in newspaper text, personal or business letters, or academic writing, has been in the use of nonverbal language: modes of communication that do not include words consisting of alphabet characters, but rather face-like representations such as emojis and kaomojis, which are defined as "face-like" expressions, or nontraditional punctuation such as tildes and double exclamation marks (Arakawa, 2015). As opposed to rule-based punctuation in traditional writing, punctuation in social media is more choice based. Face-like representations can convey meaning when they are utilized in an isolated form, but they may also serve additional functions when they accompany text.departmental bulletin pape
Joint Symposium Proceeding: A Case Study on Nonverbal Marker Use Among Young Japanese People in Social Media
No full textThe Influence of Closeness on Japanese-English Translation
Full text linkIn the evolving dynamics of cross-cultural communication, understanding the biases that play a role in language translation is crucial. This research, using the Critical Incident Technique, delved into the nuances of how bilingual Japanese individuals provide translations to non-Japanese speakers, based on the relationship between the translator and the recipient. The findings reveal a notable distinction: bilingual Japanese individuals tend to offer a more positive and intricately detailed translation for non-Japanese-speaking friends as compared to non-Japanese-speaking strangers. This behavior suggests a predominant inclination among Japanese to "protect the face" of those they share closer bonds with, by casting the original message in a more positive light or providing more comprehensive translations. This observed phenomenon not only underlines a cultural aspect of Japanese communication, which prioritizes harmony and face-saving, but also indicates a willingness among Japanese speakers to invest greater effort in the translation process for their friends. The study underscores the inherent biases that can shape Japanese to English translations based on relational closeness, thereby emphasizing the importance of understanding socio-cultural contexts in cross-linguistic interactions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Talkopoly for communicating collaboratively
No full textTalkopoly, a communication game which appears in Talk a Lot (Martin, 2003) is an adaptation of the board game Monopoly, with English practice questions instead of places, properties, and streets. Simple variety and range of questions on the game board(s) make it ideal for warm-ups, communication practice, and lesson reviews. The game can be modified to help reinforce recently learned grammar and vocabulary in a focused, collaborative, and enjoyable way
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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