A commonly held view of English definite articles is that they signal that the referent of an NP is familiar to the addressee. However, it is well known that not all definite article phrases meet this familiarity requirement. To account for such non-familiar uses, Heim (1982) invokes the mechanism of ‘accommodation’, which enables an addressee to remedy a violation of the familiarity requiremen...

We hypothesize that the performance of multimodal perceptive user interfaces during multi-party interaction may be improved by using facial orientation of users as a cue for identifying the addressee of a user utterance. Multi-party interactions were collected in a user test where one participant would both interact with an information kiosk and negotiate with another person about the informati...

The problem we address here is how an animated face can produce the appropriate facial expression according to the performative of the communicative act being performed, while taking into account information on the specific interlocutor and the specific physical-social situation at hand. In our system, a communicative act is represented by two elements: a meaning which corresponds to a set of g...

The construction [X, you are/were Y], where X is a spatio-temporal addressee, widely attested on Dutch social media. We investigated this in Twitter corpus, and found that users use the to tell their audience about current or recent experience at location addressed, while same time evaluating said experience. Reference first-hand not overtly expressed, yet it an essential interpretive aspect of...

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the experiential avoidance, explicit and implicit attraction beliefs in obese and normal body mass index (BMI) females. Materials and Methods: This was an analytic cross sectional study. About 400 females (between 20-43 years old) were selected from nutrition and obesity clinics by convenience sampling method. The 40 items avoidance questionnaire...

The Casimir attraction can significantly interfere the physical response of nanoactuators. The intensity of the Casimir force depends on the geometries of interacting bodies. The present paper is dedicated to model the influence of the Casimir attraction on the electrostatic stability of nanoactuators made of cylindrical conductive nanowire/nanotube. An asymptotic solution, based on path-integr...

The paper considers the metanarrative (exegetical) and metafictional (diegetical) aspects of a work, ways author’s contacts with reader/listener. nature addressing may be direct, which implies explicit addressee, hidden, designed for implicit addressee. latter is present as an ideal recipient who perceives aesthetic mode work. strategy intimate connection reader based on ascending evaluative di...