Рассматриваются особенности коммуникативной стилистики текста как научного направления стилистических исследований, разрабатываемого в Томском государственном педагогическом университете под руководством профессора Н. С. Болотновой. Отмечаются текста, ее связь со смежными научными дисциплинами, выделяются стилистики, подчеркивается с когнитивно-дискурсивными исследованиями. The article discusse...

The paper aims to give a comprehensive account of translation strategies for English-Ukrainian interpretation Joseph R. Biden’s speech in Poland. Political speeches serve as multi-purpose tool, shaping people’s consciousness and reinforcing political practices firmly held beliefs. Therefore, the appropriate methods are needed retain such communicative effect on recipient audience. discourse int...

The goal of this study was to re-examine McCroskey, Valencic, and Richmond’s findings about the impact of a teacher’s temperament on her or his students by examining the findings in a different context, the supervisor-subordinate relationship in organizational settings. This study measured a supervisor’s temperament to see if it affected a subordinate’s job satisfaction, motivation, and percept...

Most storytelling systems to date rely on manually coded knowledge, the cost of which usually restricts such systems to operate within a few domains where knowledge has been engineered. Open Story Generation systems are capable of learning knowledge necessary for telling stories in a given domain. In this paper, we describe a technique that generates and communicates stories in language with di...

This study investigated the relationship between clear and conversational speech styles and motion of visible articulators. Using state-of-the-art computervision and image processing techniques, we examined front and side view videos of 18 native English speakers’ faces while they recited six English words containing various vowels (keyed, kid, cod, cud, cooed, could) and extracted measurements...

We demo a chat bot with the focus on complex, multi-sentence questions that enforce what we call rhetoric agreement of answers with questions. Chat bot finds answers which are not only relevant by topic but also match the question by style, argumentation patterns, communication means, experience level and other attributes. The system achieves rhetoric agreement by learning pairs of discourse tr...

Embodied Pedagogical Agents (EPA) are increasingly employed in educational applications, for a variety of users and purposes. However, studies have shown that visual appearance, communicative style, and pedagogical roles of agents impact their acceptance, trust, and user interaction [1, 2, 3, 4]. In this paper, we present a study where 86 primary school children (aged 7-11) chose an EPA to ‘acc...

Brian Breed (hereafter BB) invokes a wide range of scholarly voices, among them mine, with a freshness & energetic involvement that put me in mind of first coming to the Book of Bucolics myself more than forty years ago, remind me too that only provocative new turns will keep this age-old colloquy alive. BB enunciates a distinctive strategy & theoretical view. He emphasizes & interrogates the r...

The elaboration of the theoretical notion of communicative competence reflects a growing awareness of the importance of pragmatic knowledge in achieving mastery of a second language. Such awareness includes the recognition that teaching language effectively includes teaching culture in the most fundamental sense. Using the framework of interactional sociolinguistics to link theoretical work on ...

Human communicative competence is based on the ability to process a specific class of mental states, namely, communicative intention. The present fMRI study aims to analyze whether intention processing in communication is affected by the expressive means through which a communicative intention is conveyed, that is, the linguistic or extralinguistic gestural means. Combined factorial and conjunc...