26 research outputs found
Pursuing a response by repairing an indexical reference
Prior conversation analytic research has demonstrated that when, following a sequence-initiating
action, a response is relevantly missing (or is forthcoming but is apparently inadequate), speakers may
use a range of practices for pursuing a response (or a more adequate response). These practices—-
such as response prompts, preference reversals, or turn extensions—treat the missing (or inadequate)
response as indicative of some problem, and they may either expose or mask the response pursuit
and the problem they attempt to remediate. This article extends this prior research by showing that
speakers can also use repair technology—specifically, repair of an indexical reference—as a resource
for pursuing a response. It demonstrates that speakers can use repair of indexicals, particularly when
no uncertainty as to the referent seems possible, in order to pursue a response while obscuring some
other possible source of trouble. Initiating repair on an indexical reference in transition space claims
that a missing response is due to a problem of understanding or of recognizing the reference, and by
repairing it, the speaker makes available another opportunity for a response without exposing recipient
disinclination as the possible source of the trouble. Likewise, repairing an indexical reference in
the third turn can pursue a more adequate response, while avoiding going on record as doing so, by
treating the sequence-initiating turn as the source of the trouble. We show that, by ostensibly dealing
with problems of reference, repairs on indexicals manage (covertly) other more interactionally
charged issues, such as upcoming disagreement or misalignment between interlocutors
Reference recalibration repairs: adjusting the precision of formulations for the task at hand
This report examines what is involved when a speaker overtly selects one formulation over
another by employing a repair operation that reformulates a reference in a way that adjusts or
recalibrates it, rather than abandons the original reference altogether. Focusing primarily on
references to persons, we show that beyond the narrowing of a reference – increasing its
precision – that results in an improved fit between a person reference and other components of a
turn-at-talk, these reference recalibration repairs can be used to do such things as meeting the
requirements of a story’s telling, upgrading the credibility of an information source, and
justifying a rejection. This ties speakers’ overt concern with calibrating a categorical reference to
the formation of action in their turn-at-talk. By contrast, we then show how broadening a
reference – decreasing its precision – can be used as a method for displaying uncertainty and
thereby recalibrating a reference to fit the manifest knowledge state of the speaker (or a
recipient)
A Detection of the Environmental Dependence of the Sizes and Stellar Haloes of Massive Central Galaxies
We use ~100 square deg of deep (>28.5 mag arcsec in i-band),
high-quality (median 0.6 arcsec seeing) imaging data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam
(HSC) survey to reveal the halo mass dependence of the surface mass density
profiles and outer stellar envelopes of massive galaxies. The i-band images
from the HSC survey reach ~4 magnitudes deeper than Sloan Digital Sky Survey
and enable us to directly trace stellar mass distributions to 100 kpc without
requiring stacking. We conclusively show that, at fixed stellar mass, the
stellar profiles of massive galaxies depend on the masses of their dark matter
haloes. On average, massive central galaxies with $\log M_{\star, 100\
\mathrm{kpc}}>11.6\log M_{\rm{Halo}}>14.0R_{\mathrm{50}}\log M_{\star, 100\
\rm{kpc}}\log M_{\star, 10\ \rm{kpc}}$ relation avoids the ambiguity in the
definition of size, and can be straightforwardly compared with simulations. Our
results demonstrate that, with deep images from HSC, we can quantify the
connection between halo mass and the outer stellar halo, which may provide new
constraints on the formation and assembly of massive central galaxies.Comment: Accepted for the publication in MNRAS, 19 Pages, 12 Figures, and 1
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A construção da significação da experiência do abuso sexual infantil através da narrativa: uma perspectiva interacional
The Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP survey: Overview and survey design
Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is a wide-field imaging camera on the prime focus of the 8.2-m Subaru telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. A team of scientists from Japan, Taiwan, and Princeton University is using HSC to carry out a 300-night multi-band imaging survey of the high-latitude sky. The survey includes three layers: the Wide layer will cover 1400 deg2 in five broad bands (grizy), with a 5 σ point-source depth of r ≈ 26. The Deep layer covers a total of 26 deg2 in four fields, going roughly a magnitude fainter, while the UltraDeep layer goes almost a magnitude fainter still in two pointings of HSC (a total of 3.5 deg2). Here we describe the instrument, the science goals of the survey, and the survey strategy and data processing. This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, which includes a large number of technical and scientific papers describing results from the early phases of this survey
The Gratitude Opportunity Space: The timing of gratitude expressions in object passes
This paper examines the situated use of expressions of gratitude and demonstrates how their precise timing matters for coordinating actions and managing relationships in social interaction. Focusing on activities that involve object passing, we introduce the concept of the gratitude opportunity space, a standard time for expressing gratitude. We explicate three discernable phases within the gratitude opportunity space for simple recruitment sequences involving an object pass (pre-delivery, on-delivery, and post-delivery positions) and explore how the gratitude opportunity space is dynamically recalibrated according to the activity underway in other activities that involve object passes (i.e., remote offers of objects and gift giving). Data are American and British English