Federico Farini
List of John Benjamins publications in which Federico Farini is involved.
2016 Affective formulations in multilingual healthcare settings Emotion in Multilingual Interaction, Prior, Matthew T. and Gabriele Kasper (eds.), pp. 177–201 | Article
This chapter discusses the results of research on the management of emotions in medical interactions involving Italian healthcare providers and Arabic- or Chinese-speaking interpreters and patients. Findings suggest that the possibility for patients’ emotions to become relevant in the medical… read more
2012 Chapter 6. Observing the paradox: Interrogative-negative questions as cues for a monophonic promotion of polyphony in educational practices Spaces of Polyphony, Lorda, Clara Ubaldina and Patrick Zabalbeascoa (eds.), pp. 87–100 | Chapter
Many pedagogical publications (Hengst & Zeiher 2005, Walsh 2011) offer prescriptive resources to empower children’s voices in educational practices, placing particular emphasis on children’s self-realization and agency. However, none of them discusses the results of the empirical application of… read more
2011 Dialogic mediation in international groups of adolescents Language and Dialogue 1:2, pp. 207–232 | Article
Mediation is the action of a third party that helps two conflicting parties to reach a mutually acceptable settlement. This action implies promoting the parties’ empowerment and new narratives by facilitating their communication. The analysis of dialogue, and in particular of mediators’ dialogic… read more
2009 Chapter 7.
Activities 2: Coordinating reflection Dialogue in Intercultural Communities: From an educational point of view, Baraldi, Claudio (ed.), pp. 155–172 | Article
Chapter 7 deals with the debriefing sessions which, after the conclusion of cooperation and trust games, stimulate children’s collective reflections on their previous experience. Debriefing sessions are supposed to promote appreciation of the ways in which sociality is constructed, and… read more