This chapter reviews energy communication, an emerging subfield of communication
studies that examines the role of energy in society, and argues that it is dominated by a crisis …

Advice is a common element of supportive interactions, but unsolicited advice can harm the
advice recipient as well as the relationship between the advice recipient and the advice …

Epistemic trust–ie the belief in knowledge claims we do not understand or cannot validate–is
pivotal in healthcare interactions where trust in the source of knowledge is the foundation for …

This article investigates the in-situ relations that interlocutors co-construct during troubles
talk in a working team, with a focus on talk centred around negative issues or experiences …

Research into conversational humour has found its significant role across a wide range of
interactional settings, but to date, only a limited body of studies have investigated the use of …

The main objective of this research is to investigate the epistemic and pragmatic
management of patient-doctor interactions in Italian online health communities. To achieve …

Traditionally, medical experts are key actors in the socialization of future doctors. In this
paper, we focus on how medical teachers and residents enact for the teachers the …

Viewing conversations from an epistemic perspective involves analysing how participants
navigate their knowledge, handle uncertainty, and address their lack of knowledge. This …

People often get support from others in regulating their emotions, a phenomenon known as
interpersonal emotion regulation (IER). However, the relative effectiveness of specific IER …

Social scientists and conversation analysts have both focused on advice as a key form of
support and influence, but neither have adequately connected patterns of verbal behavior in …