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  2. Erving Goffman - Wikipedia

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    Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century". [1] In 2007, The Times Higher Education Guide listed him as the sixth most-cited author of books in the humanities and social sciences.

  3. Diglossia - Wikipedia

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    The Greek word διγλωσσία ( diglossía ), from δί- ( dí-, "two") and γλώσσα ( glóssa, "language"), meant bilingualism; it was given its specialized meaning "two forms of the same language" by Emmanuel Rhoides in the prologue of his Parerga in 1885. The term was quickly adapted into French as diglossie by the Greek linguist and ...

  4. Intrapersonal communication - Wikipedia

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    Definition and essential features. Intrapersonal communication is communication with oneself. It takes place within a person. Larry Barker and Gordon Wiseman define it as "the creating, functioning, and evaluating of symbolic processes which operate primarily within oneself". Its most typical forms are self-talk and inner dialogue. For example, when an employee decides to leave work early ...

  5. Conversation - Wikipedia

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    Conversation is interactive communication between two or more people. The development of conversational skills and etiquette is an important part of socialization. The development of conversational skills in a new language is a frequent focus of language teaching and learning. Conversation analysis is a branch of sociology which studies the ...

  6. Interfaith dialogue - Wikipedia

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    "In the dialogue of the head, we mentally reach out to the other to learn from those who think differently from us." "In the dialogue of the hands, we all work together to make the world a better place in which we must all live together." "In the dialogue of the heart, we share the experience of the emotions of those different from us."

  7. Interactional linguistics - Wikipedia

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    The next step which made interactional linguistics develop was the important work on conversation analysis. Some sociologists were saying the study of everyday language was the essence of social order; some other kinds of discourse were said to be understood as habituations of the fundamental conversational order.

  8. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    The number of distinct senses that are listed in Wiktionary is shown in the polysemy column. For example, "out" can refer to an escape, a removal from play in baseball, or any of 36 other concepts. On average, each word in the list has 15.38 senses. The sense count does not include the use of terms in phrasal verbs such as "put out" (as in ...

  9. Wonderful Everyday - Wikipedia

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    Wonderful Everyday. Wonderful Everyday: Diskontinuierliches Dasein ( Japanese: 素晴らしき日々 ~不連続存在~, Hepburn: Subarashiki Hibi ~Furenzoku Sonzai~), [1] abbreviated as SubaHibi, is a Japanese visual novel developed by KeroQ. It was released for Windows in 2010 and was given an international release by Frontwing in 2017.