Text Communication Research Articles

Face-to-face more important than digital communication for mental health during the pandemic

During the lockdowns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, many people tried to compensate for limited face-to-face interaction by increasing digital communication. Results of a four-week experience sampling study in the German-speaking countries (N = 411 participants; k = 9791 daily questionnaires) suggest, however, that digital communication was far less relevant for lockdown mental health than face-to-face communication. Digital text-based communication (e.g., e-mail, WhatsApp, SMS) nevertheless was meaningfully associated with mental health, and both face-to-face and digital text communication were more predictive of mental health than either physical or outdoor activity. Our results underscore the importance of face-to-face communication for mental health. Our results also suggest that videoconferencing was only negligibly associated with mental health, despite providing more visual and audible cues than digital text communication.

How production and distribution processes shape translations in organisations

Abstract The Finnish Tax Administration’s OmaVero (OV) e-service is an example of an organisational software development and text production process in which translation plays a significant role. In this article, the concept of materiality is utilised to analyse how aspects of the wider process affect the form and content of OV translations. A distinction is made between the translations’ production and distribution process, the effects of the former being manifested mainly through the use of digital translation tools and those of the latter through the conventions of OV software development. A material analysis reveals a conflict in how these two processes treat language as a textual element: the production process downplays and obscures the connection between language content and its textual environment, while the distribution process attaches great importance to this relationship. This demonstrates how a material perspective can introduce useful nuance into analyses of textual communication processes in translation studies.

From writing to drawing: Examining visual composition in danmu-mediated textual communication

Danmu (anonymous superimposed video comments) is a popular form of communication on Chinese and Japanese video sharing sites. While previous studies primarily focused on the verbal aspects of danmu comments, there is a growing interest in exploring their multimodal features. This study investigates the unique potential of danmu comments to communicate visual meaning, interact with on-screen content, and thereby shape audience perception. Informed by a social semiotic approach to multimodality and relevant pragmatic theories, the study analyzed 50 screenshots of visually significant danmu comments to understand the resources used by commenters to craft visual comments and the relationship between these comments and the screen. Our findings revealed that four key resources were utilized to create visual comments: arrows, kaomoji, context-specific special characters and symbols, and ASCII art. Additionally, five types of relationships were identified between visual danmu comments and the screen, including deictic, emphasizing, complementing, extending, and independent. This study provides an up-to-date examination of the possibilities for visual expression in textual communication and extends previous research on semiotic resources in social media. It also discusses the role of danmu visual play as internet memes and the emergence of danmu visual grammar.

Analysis of Types in Business Communication using the TOPSIS Method

Information interchange between employees and others outside the corporation is referred to as business communication. To accomplish organizational objectives, managers and staff interact with one another through effective communication. This seeks to reduce mistakes and enhance administrative procedures. The four basic types of communication are verbal, non-verbal, visual, and written communication. The four primary business communication styles are typically upstream, downward, sideways, and external. Within a company, there is no "correct" method of communication. Therefore, communication is a means to make communication between people easier, understandable, and, above all, clear. In everyday language, means of communication are often equated with media. Communication is key in business to provide bold, concise statements regarding branding, strategy, and customer service. A company builds a brand that conveys a consistent message that is specific to its target market. Internal communication fosters teamwork and cooperation and helps employees and management get along. Relationship building with your team, consumers, and stakeholders demands good communication. Poor communication can destroy relationships, which may also result in lost sales and a tarnished reputation. Improving your communication skills with your team, suppliers, and customers is crucial for workplace interaction and raising employee productivity. Through communication, different programs and policies, crucial issues, organizational goals, and other topics are communicated to employees, improving their knowledge and enhancing their ability to carry out their duties more effectively. Communication research is at the cutting edge of theory and research in the communication field. It serves as a global forum for academics and professionals interested in recent findings in the domains of communication and related areas. Three different types of communication can be distinguished: verbal communication, which involves asking questions; textual communication, which involves interpreting someone's meaning and asking them to clarify what they mean; and nonverbal cues, which entail observing someone and inferring their intentions. Communication is fundamental to self-expression and meeting one's needs. The ability to communicate effectively is crucial for career progress. Effective communication abilities can help you comprehend and understand others, easing your path and interactions with people in your daily life. The TOPSIS method of ranking is evaluated based on enhanced ambiguity comparison with weighted average. Multiple response is one of the typical approaches used in TOPSIS to improve problems, reduce uncertainty, determine the weight of each response, and manage it continuously. Types of business communication include personal communication, external communication, formal communication, informal communication, mass communication, vertical communication, horizontal communication, and downward communication. Communication can be categorized based on the parties involved, formality, and other types. Personal communication ranks first, while formal communication has the lowest rank among the types of business communication

Emerging Adults and the Use of Textual Digital Communication: A Reflection on Self-Esteem, Loneliness, Anxiety, and Wellbeing

Digital communication is a great facilitator of human connection, positively contributing to life satisfaction and prosocial behavior. However, the existing findings also insist on the drawbacks of the digital communication, as low levels of wellbeing satisfaction, or happiness. Thus, aiming to reconciliate the two sets of assumptions and relying on the reality that textual communication is preferred to voice interaction, the present paper investigates the impact of using messaging apps on the emotional state. More specifically, the study explores if time spent texting, the general affinity towards technology, the perceived ease of use, the perceived usefulness, and the intentional behavior to use messaging applications are correlated with self-esteem, loneliness, anxiety, and wellbeing. An online opinion survey (N=147) with Romanian emerging adults is conducted between February and May 2022. The results show that a positive attitude towards technology is negatively correlated with the feelings of loneliness and anxiety. Moreover, a positive perception on the ease of use and usefulness of the messaging applications is linked with an increased wellbeing.

Epistemologia przekładu: domyślna i wysłowiona

Translation Epistemology: Implied and Expressed The starting point for determining the nature of translation epistemology, which develops in parallel to the philosophical theory of cognition, is to distinguish an internal epistemology that permeates the field of translation communication – one of the varieties of verbal textual communication. Its goals are cognitive and exploratory. Cognition refers to the essence of translational communication, exploration refers to the forms differentiating this type of communication. I define translation as the interlingual re-editing of a ready text; and in the space of textual communication it generates seven fundamental components: 1. foreign-language originals or foreign-language translations, 2. mental translations (paratexts), 3. complete translations, 4. fragmentary translations, 5. translation-like structures, 6. translational reflections, and 7. translational fantasies. In this area the epistemology of translation is equivalent to the documentalist’s epistemology. For the translator, any textual structure, subjected to interlingual re-editing, becomes a document as well as a task. In the process of translation, cognitive activity is intertwined with praxeological one, the acquisition of knowledge is combined with the improvement of the craft of translation, the concurrence of cognition and skill prevails. The whole epistemological activity of translators and translation scholars, implicit and explicit, consists in the fact that the translator repeats the hypothetical path of the original author, while the translation scholar repeats bot the hypothetical path of the translator and the hypothetical path of the original author.

Supplemental Material for How Expertise Mediates the Effects of Numerical and Textual Communication on Individual and Collective Accuracy

Supplemental Material for How Expertise Mediates the Effects of Numerical and Textual Communication on Individual and Collective Accuracy

Tamil Offensive Language Detection: Supervised versus Unsupervised Learning Approaches

Studies on natural language processing are mainly conducted in English, with very few exploring languages that are under-resourced, including the Dravidian languages. We present a novel work in detecting offensive language using a corpus collected from YouTube containing comments in Tamil. The study specifically aims to compare two machine learning approaches—namely, supervised and unsupervised—to detect offensive patterns in textual communications. In the first setup, offensive language detection models were developed using traditional machine learning algorithms such as Random Forest, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine, and AdaBoost, and assessed based on human labeling. Conversely, we used K -means ( K = 2) to cluster the unlabeled data before training the same set of machine learning algorithms to detect offensive communications. Performance scores indicate unsupervised clustering to be more effective than human labeling with ensemble classifiers achieving an impressive accuracy of 99.70% and 99.87% respectively for balanced and imbalanced datasets, hence showing that the unsupervised approach can be used effectively to detect offensive language in low-resourced languages.

Vocative forms in G. Yakhina’s short story “A Moth”: Linguistic and cultural issues

This article deals with the features of vocative forms used in a literary text. Guzel Yakhina’s short story “A Moth” was chosen as one of the most meaningful in terms of presenting culturally significant information (due to the combination of fictional and documentary narrative). The aim of the article is to identify and comment on linguistic universals and peculiar Russian (including Soviet) linguistic culture, which are realized in special forms of Russian anthroponymic appellatives in specific speech acts of address in the story. Methodologically, the article is of interdisciplinary character, because the author uses methodological tools based on the application of general scientific methods (modeling, interpretation) and specific methods (linguistic reconstruction of culture, language and culture commentary). Having analyzed the corpus of appellative words that forms a specific space of interpersonal communication in a literary text, the author highlights the features of the worldview and communicative stereotypes of the era, reconstructed in the literary text. We identify the reasons for the unproductive use of appellatives in the analyzed text by G. Yakhina, as well as the most frequently used anthroponymic units.

TELEPSYCHOLOGY WITH ITS INNOVATIONS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHODIAGNOSTICS

IntroductionThe types of Electronic-Based Therapy & Intervention are spreading rapidly, especially after the onset of COVID, and several authors are dealing specifically with digital psychology and psychiatry, implementing new techniques and methodologies (Festa, Martinotti, 2022).The latest technological innovations related to metaverse and holography are emerging as new digital mediums and a reflection on their potential in the psychological field is urgent. Telepsychology, which currently uses text, audio and video-based communication as a medium, will see the way to relate to the patient with the “new digital presence” amplified at 360 degrees. This will of course revolutionize some aspects of classic psychological intervention: “physical proximity” will have a completely different meaning. New technologies through the digital medium have the power to cancel space, thus allowing the intervention to be separated from the sharing of the same physical environment. The first great epochal upheaval produced by new technologies in the field of the psychological profession is precisely this: psychological intervention no longer necessarily coincides with the sharing of the same physical space, space and intervention becoming independent.ObjectivesWe will soon and increasingly refer to associations, national and international professional associations and institutions that deal with the subject, such as the American Psychological Association, the International Society for Mental Health Online, the Online Therapy Institute, to have guidelines on best practice with respect to psychological performance online. This will be accompanied by specific training courses for clinicians who decide to work using technological tools and courses related to telepsychology and the development of a professional online identity.MethodsHolographic technology will revolutionize our “internal and external world”, and it is the task of psychological science to cultivate questions and provide answers both on the impact that this technology will have on the life of the average man and on the possibilities of use for our profession. The distance of the real world from the digital one is getting smaller with each passing day.ResultsOur habits, our way of working, having fun have changed in different ways and in a very short time. Our physical, cognitive and sensory boundaries have expanded and our way of life has “evolved”.ConclusionsWe find ourselves passing through and going through a phase, which began in the 1980s, which is not without shadows and settles into mass cultural aspects. The contradictions, abnormal uses and abuses of technology, but which accompany every innovative transformation and which we should gradually manage wisely, are also typical of this phase. We will see what the future holds!Disclosure of InterestNone Declared

Examining Knowledge Extraction Processes from Heterogeneous Data Sources

In the last 20 years, e-mail, instant messaging, documents, blogs, news, text communication in the transfer of information over the web, as a result of the presentation and transmission of information as a result of the Web the dramatic increase in the amount of data in digital environments has increased the importance of studies in the field of knowledge extraction from unstructured data. Since the 2000s, one of the primary goals of researchers in the field of artificial intelligence has been to extract knowledge from heterogeneous data sources on the World Wide Web, including real-life entities and semantic relationships between entities, and to display them in machine-readable format. Advances in natural language processing and information extraction have increased the importance of large-scale knowledge bases in complex applications, resulting in scalable information extraction from semi-structured and unstructured heterogeneous data sources on the Web, and the detection of entities and relationships; It enabled the automatic creation of prominent knowledge bases in this field such as DbPedia, YAGO, NELL, Freebase, Probase, Google Knowledge Vault, IBM Watsons, which contain millions of semantic relationships between hundreds of thousands of entities, and displaying the created information in machine-readable format. Within the scope of this article; Web-scale(end-to-end) knowledge extraction from heterogeneous data sources, methods, challenges and opportunities are provided.

Detection of Cyberbullying Patterns in Low Resource Colloquial Roman Urdu Microtext using Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Ensemble Techniques

Social media platforms have become a substratum for people to enunciate their opinions and ideas across the globe. Due to anonymity preservation and freedom of expression, it is possible to humiliate individuals and groups, disregarding social etiquette online, inevitably proliferating and diversifying the incidents of cyberbullying and cyber hate speech. This intimidating problem has recently sought the attention of researchers and scholars worldwide. Still, the current practices to sift the online content and offset the hatred spread do not go far enough. One factor contributing to this is the recent prevalence of regional languages in social media, the dearth of language resources, and flexible detection approaches, specifically for low-resource languages. In this context, most existing studies are oriented towards traditional resource-rich languages and highlight a huge gap in recently embraced resource-poor languages. One such language currently adopted worldwide and more typically by South Asian users for textual communication on social networks is Roman Urdu. It is derived from Urdu and written using a Left-to-Right pattern and Roman scripting. This language elicits numerous computational challenges while performing natural language preprocessing tasks due to its inflections, derivations, lexical variations, and morphological richness. To alleviate this problem, this research proposes a cyberbullying detection approach for analyzing textual data in the Roman Urdu language based on advanced preprocessing methods, voting-based ensemble techniques, and machine learning algorithms. The study has extracted a vast number of features, including statistical features, word N-Grams, combined n-grams, and BOW model with TFIDF weighting in different experimental settings using GridSearchCV and cross-validation techniques. The detection approach has been designed to tackle users’ textual input by considering user-specific writing styles on social media in a colloquial and non-standard form. The experimental results show that SVM with embedded hybrid N-gram features produced the highest average accuracy of around 83%. Among the ensemble voting-based techniques, XGboost achieved the optimal accuracy of 79%. Both implicit and explicit Roman Urdu instances were evaluated, and the categorization of severity based on prediction probabilities was performed. Time complexity is also analyzed in terms of execution time, indicating that LR, using different parameters and feature combinations, is the fastest algorithm. The results are promising with respect to standard assessment metrics and indicate the feasibility of the proposed approach in cyberbullying detection for the Roman Urdu language.

Comparative analysis of kinetic typography elements in movie title sequence

Typography, usually closely related to printed media, has now been explored in digital media. These changes make typography, which is usually static, more dynamic. One example of digital typography is kinetic typography. Typography's position as a medium of visual and textual communication becomes more interesting because the element of motion in kinetic typography adds another meaning value. This study examines how typography reveals meaning in time-based media formats. In this study, three movie title sequences with different genres will be analyzed: Monsters Inc., Se7en, and Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol. The film was chosen because it has a dominant kinetic typography structure and has a good reputation in terms of visuals. The method of analysis is carried out by comparing the structure of the three title sequences based on the kinetic typography theory by Bellantoni and Woolman. Furthermore, an analysis of the semantic value of each title sequence was also carried out. This research is aimed to figure out the elements used in the visual creation of a title sequence and how these elements can construct meaning. From the analysis process it is known that each genre of the title sequence has different element variations which of course have their own meaning. The results of this study are expected to provide recommendations for the title sequence design method based on the genre like comedy animation, thriller, and action.

Annual Reports Readability From Linguistic and Communication Perspectives: Systematic Literature Review

This research presents a new theoretical framework through assessing readability research based on the linguistics and communication perspectives to determine the obfuscation probabilities and how to mitigate them. Therefore, this systematic literature review analyzed 219 papers using the SCOPUS and Web of Science databases. Findings show that in every language approach, there is an obfuscation level for annual reports, depending on the weakness of a particular component of the text communication process, starting from the use of a complex writing style and ending with the imposition of specific methods of presentation, while suggesting ways to mitigate the obfuscation.

An investigation of the diachronic trend of dependency distance minimization in magazines and news.

The principle of minimization of dependency distance (DD) can reduce the working memory burden of language speakers, that is, reduce the cognitive burden during the communication process. This investigation demonstrated the dependency distance (based on the dependency grammar) minimization principle from a diachronic perspective in two text types of magazines and news with inspection indicators of mean dependency distance (MDD) and normalized dependency distance (NDD). This research revealed a fluctuation tendency around a certain axis concerning diachronic dependency distance variation. This research also indicated that news text balances language complexity and communication efficiency better than magazine text.

COVID-19 and Public Health: Analysis of Opinions in Social Media.

The article presents the results of research of public opinion during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. The study touches on the attitude of citizens to public health, as well as the reaction of social media users to government measures in a crisis situation during a pandemic. Special attention is paid to the phenomenon of infodemic and methods of detecting cases of the spread of false and unverified information about diseases. The article demonstrates the application of an interdisciplinary approach using network analysis of texts and sociological research. A model for detecting social stress in the textual communication of social network users using a specially trained neural network and linguistic analysis methods is presented. The validity and validity of the results of the analysis of social network data were verified using a sociological survey. This approach allows us to identify points of tension in matters of public health promotion, during crisis situations to improve interaction between the government and society, and to timely adjust government plans and actions to ensure resilience in emergency situations for public health purposes.

On the Chinese Translations of <i>The Economic Principles of Confucius and His School</i> from the Perspective of Paratext

As the first work on ancient Chinese economic thought overseas written by a Chinese, The Economic Principles of Confucius and His School attracted huge attention of Western researchers, however the studies of the content and opinions on this work at home are not expanded until the late 20th century, which mainly concentrated in the field of economics and philosophy. Since the publication of three Chinese translations in 2009 and 2010, this work gradually come into public readers’ scope, but there are few researches study from the perspective of translation studies. This paper will take three different translators’ first Chinese versions as the case study to compare the paratext in each translation. Paratexts, acting as the mediator between the text and readers, explains cultural values and reveals the translators’ translation ideas and strategies. This study aims to describe and analyse the paratext of translation products and explore the reason behind it, in order to provide references for the transmission and communication of texts on social sciences.

Digital technologies as a tool of consulting activities in adult education

This article is about the use of digital technologies as a tool of advisory activity in adult education. The authors emphasize the need for digitization of higher education in Ukraine, because in the conditions of a fullscale invasion, educators should not lose the quality of providing educational services to students of three levels of education. It was determined that the purpose of this article is to reveal the potential of digital technologies as tools of advisory activities, to review their advantages and disadvantages during the educational process. The tasks are to study the educational potential of digital technologies as tools of advisory activities in adult education, to create a concise overview of the advantages and disadvantages of the following digital resources: Google Meet, Zoom, Gmail, messengers and Moodle. The authors characterized the features of the concept of “consultative activity of a teacher” aimed at satisfying individual professional requests of students, solving practical pedagogical tasks, motivating students to innovate during their studies, supporting the moral and mental state of students, as well as helping in determining an individual educational trajectory. Attention is focused on the fact that during the war in Ukraine, tools and digital technologies played an important role in the educational process, which allow organizing text communication between students, teachers and university administration in such a way that every participant in the educational process has the opportunity to access communicationThe authors include the following digital technologies of text communication: e-mails, Google-chat, Telegram, other messengers, etc. In the conclusions, as an argument of significance, it is stated that the use of digital technologies during teaching and advising students requires a modern teacher to be aware of the possibilities of the chosen digital resource, its advantages and disadvantages, because according to the authors of the article, there is currently no ideal technology for application. When choosing one or another digital resource, the teacher should first of all focus on the features of the course, the specifics of the group with which he will interact, as well as his own preferences.

Active Disconnection: Self-Reflection on Non-Use of Information and Communication Technologies

“Disconnection” has become the new normal of Internet connectivity culture. The article traces the “anti-technology” of thought in the process of oral communication, text communication, print communication, electronic communication, and internet communication. This study analyzes the discussion content of Western disconnectors on the foreign platform “Reddit” and explores the user’s understanding of this behavior. This study rethinks significantly these behaviors that seem to be “anti-technology.” Disconnection, as a result, for those who actively disconnect, is another connected way of life, active pursuit of self, resistance to media and capital power, and a new reflection on the relationship between people and technology. The purpose of “disconnection” is to accomplish the subjectivity of humans and promote the healthy development of the relationship between humans and technology.

Images Say More than Just Words: Effectiveness of Visual and Text Communication in Dispelling the Rent-Control Misconception

Images Say More than Just Words: Effectiveness of Visual and Text Communication in Dispelling the Rent-Control Misconception