The present study, on the one hand, attempted to investigate the strategies applied in dispreferred responses by Iranian university students of English and the extent to which pragmatic transfer could occur.  On the other hand, the study aimed to probe into the association between dispreferred organization and turn-shape. To this end, 31 relevant naturally occurring conversations, totaling 120 ...

Both hard and soft power are important in promoting China's dominance. It is possible to argue that China has risen significantly terms of economic financial measurement criteria over the last 30 years, developing increasing its power. The nation substantially increased at regional global levels due cultural dimension and, particular, efficient foreign policy. present investigation sought addre...

The paper analyzes the discursive strategies of apparent empathy and ideological polarization that were used to legitimize discrimination against covered female students in Republic Turkey. We approached this complex social problem from point view critical discourse analysis, which represents an interdisciplinary research area centered on interest researching manipulative use language. ban wear...

extended abstract 1. introduction without a doubt, people communicate their feelings and thoughts through discourse and texts. every text is formed based on some metalinguistic variables including, culture, history, relations of power, politics, norms, and rules of the society. the author is supposed to organize a text considering all these mentioned variables and the translator is expected to ...

A question answering system that provides access to a large amount of data wi l l be most useful if it can tailor its answer to each user. In particular, a user's level of knowledge about the domain of discourse is an important factor in this tailoring. In previous work we determined that a user's level of domain knowledge affects the kind of information provided in an answer to a user's questi...

An important factor of argument mining in dialog or multilog data is the framing with which interlocutors put forth their arguments. By using rhetorical devices such as hedging or reference to the Common Ground, speakers relate themselves to their interlocutors, their arguments, and the ongoing discourse. Capitalizing on theoretical linguistic insights into the semantics and pragmatics of disco...

With advances in robotics, robots can give advice and help using natural language. The field of HRI, however, has not yet developed a communication strategy for giving advice effectively. Drawing on literature in politeness and informal speech, we propose options for a robot’s help-giving speech— using hedges or discourse markers, both of which can mitigate the commanding tone implied in direct...

The view of language as action is wellentrenched in computational theories of discourse, however previous work has not paid particular attention to the fact that agents' resource bounds must a ect the way that dialogue proceeds just as it a ects agents' behavior in general. This paper presents results on the role of discourse strategies in improving performance on collaborative tasks when agent...

Discourse analysis and natural language processing appear to share fundamental priorities: the detailed and systematic examination of text. However, authors have argued that discourse analysis does not have a strong tradition in the field of applied natural language processing, mainly because of the computational challenges associated with the nature and characteristics of discursive resources ...