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Towards Triadic Interactions In Autism And Beyond: Transitional Objects, Joint Attention, And Social Robotics, John Z. Elias, Patricia Bockelman Morrow, Jonathan Streater, Shaun Gallagher, Stephen M. Fiore
Towards Triadic Interactions In Autism And Beyond: Transitional Objects, Joint Attention, And Social Robotics, John Z. Elias, Patricia Bockelman Morrow, Jonathan Streater, Shaun Gallagher, Stephen M. Fiore
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The concept of transitional objects from the British Object Relations school of psychoanalysis may offer insight into the affective aspects of the development of dyadic and triadic interactions. Furthermore the concept may be applied to the use of social robotics in autism research and therapy, with social robots in these settings perhaps functioning as transitional objects for autistic children. Possible applications in organizational contexts are suggested as well, along with considerations of future research relating transitional objects to the notions of primary and secondary intersubjectivity.
Strategic Embarrassment And Face Threatening In Business Interactions, Wei-Lin Melody Chang, Michael Haugh
Strategic Embarrassment And Face Threatening In Business Interactions, Wei-Lin Melody Chang, Michael Haugh
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Face threats are generally studied as either something to be avoided or reduced in politeness research, or as deliberate forms of aggression in impoliteness research. The notion of face threat itself, however, has remained largely dependent on the intuitive notion of threatening. In Face Constituting Theory (Arundale, Robert, 2010. Constituting face in conversation: face, facework and interactional achievement. Journal of Pragmatics 42, 2078–2105), an approach to theorising face threats is posited that goes beyond such pre-theoretical notions. The advantages of employing such an analytical framework is that interactional practices which are open to evaluation as face threatening can be explicated …