"How about this weather?" Social Dialog with Embodied Conversational Agents
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People use conversational language to establish and maintain social relationships, as well as to accomplish tasks. Building rapport and common ground through small talk, intimacy through self-disclosure, credibility through linguistic style, social networks through gossip, and "face" through politeness, are all examples of this phenomenon. These uses of language are not important just in purely social settings, but are also crucial to the establishment and maintenance of any collaborative relationship.
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