Getting to YES. Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

语用学新解 : [英文版] = Understanding Pragmatics

Vygotsky and education: Instructional implications and applications of sociohistorical psychology

Background 
Health communication inequalities were observed in Western population but less is known about them among the Chinese. We investigated health information seeking behaviours and its social determinants among Chinese adults in Hong Kong.


Methods 
Probability-based sample surveys over telephone were conducted in 2009, 2010/11 and 2012 to monitor family health and information use. Frequency of health information seeking from television, radio, newspapers/magazines and Internet were recorded and dichotomised as ≥1 time/month and <1 time/month (reference). Logistic regression was used to yield adjusted odds ratios (aOR) of health information seeking for different demographic characteristics, socioeconomic status (education, employment and income), chronic disease and behaviours (smoking, drinking and physical activity).


Results 
Among 4553 subjects in all surveys, most (85.1%) had sought health information monthly from newspapers/magazines (66.2%), television (61.4%), radio (35.6%) or Internet (33.2%). Overall, being male, lower education attainment, lower household income, ever-smoking and physical inactivity were associated with less frequent health information seeking (all P <0.05). Compared with younger people, older people were less likely to search health information from Internet but more like to obtain it from radio (both P for trend <0.001). Having chronic diseases was associated with frequent health information seeking from television (aOR = 1.25, 95% CI: 1.07–1.47) and Internet (aOR = 1.46, 95% CI: 1.24–1.73).


Conclusions 
This study has provided the first evidence on health information inequalities from a non-Western population with advanced mass media and Internet penetration. Socioeconomic inequalities and behavioural clustering of health information seeking suggested more resources are needed for improving health communication in disadvantage groups.

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Social determinants of health information seeking among Chinese adults in Hong Kong.

This study analyzed trends and patterns in the 22 years of research published in Health Communication. A content analysis of 642 articles examined the breadth and depth that Health Communication has achieved since its inception. Readers of Health Communication can thus see the history and scope of health communication as defined in the pages of this journal, and juxtapose this historical overview in the backdrop of the current scholarship that appears in the journal. We also identified some notable trends in research for the future development of the journal Health Communication specifically and the health communication discipline in general.

Mapping Health Communication Scholarship: Breadth, Depth, and Agenda of Published Research in Health Communication

This study is an analysis of several telephone conversations between FBI negotiators and David Koresh during the 51-day FBI—Branch Davidian standoff outside Waco, Texas, in 1993. The analysis shows how different reframing practices reveal interactional troubles the negotiators faced in dealing with the incompatibility of their legal frame for the situation and the Davidians' religious one. These practices shed new light on reframing in crisis negotiation steeped in moral conflict, describing it as a problematic conversational practice rather than a prescribed path to resolution.

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Reframing practices in moral conflict: interaction problems in the negotiation standoff at Waco

This study is a discourse analysis of the transcribed talk recorded between tutors and students in a university peer tutoring program. We focus on STEM tutoring sessions, showing how tutors and stu...

Discourse strategies that co-construct relational identities in STEM peer tutoring

The purpose of this study was to describe how coaches of mediators-in-training manage interaction in role-play sessions and help trainees learn about mediation practices. Using a qualitative, discourse analytic approach, we examined role-played mediation sessions where thirteen professional mediators each provided coaching to two pairs of student trainees who had completed training in interest-based mediation (for a total of twenty-six sessions). We argue that the techniques we observed at crucial moments in mediation training seemed designed to improve trainees' understanding of the mediation process but offered limited help in teaching trainees how to enact the communication practices that are essential to mediation. We consider how the demands of giving advice and assessing communication behavior affect what coaches say to trainees in these circumstances.

Communication practices of coaches during mediator training: Addressing issues of knowledge and enactment

This study examines meetings of pedagogical importance in a community whose members are training to become certified psychic readers. During these sessions, called “cleanout meetings,” psychics in training report to their peers about the readings they completed earlier that night. Using grounded practical theory and action implicative discourse analysis, this study takes a communicative and practical approach to self-assessment as students give accounts of their readings. In this context of cleanout meetings, self-assessment takes on two forms that implicate it as a dilemmatic practice whereby participants manage evaluation and acceptance in their reports of their performances. The discussion section raises issues related to talking about the self and achievement in everyday contexts, especially in learning environments.

Self-Assessment as a Dilemmatic Communicative Practice: Talk among Psychics in Training

This study examined how facework is managed in social support interactions between friends and how facework affects satisfaction of both support seekers and support providers The study extends previous research on social support by examining solidarity, approbation, and tact as aspects of positive anda negative face and by examining actual interactions between friends about a problem support seekers are having We found that support seekers were most satisfied when supporte providers minimized the imposition of their advice / suggestiond and showed an explicit appreciation for the support seeker´s problem Support providers felt most satisfied when support seekers asked directly for help and showed admiration for the provider´s ability to help solve the problem A positive relation-ship was found between support seekers´and support providers´expressions of approbation and solidarity Controllability and importance of the problem did not emerge as significant factors in determining any facework strategies of support seekers or providers Additionally, the closeness of the relationship between friends and the empathic skill of each did not predict types of facework used by participants

Robert R. Agne

Papers

Reframing practices in moral conflict: interaction problems in the negotiation standoff at Waco

Discourse strategies that co-construct relational identities in STEM peer tutoring

Communication practices of coaches during mediator training: Addressing issues of knowledge and enactment

Self-Assessment as a Dilemmatic Communicative Practice: Talk among Psychics in Training

The nature of facework in discussion of everyday problems between friends