Automatic classification of dialogues between clients and a service center needs a preliminary dialogue parameterization. Such a parameterization is usually faced with essential difficulties when we deal with politeness, competence, satisfaction, and other similar characteristics of clients. In the paper, we show how to avoid these difficulties using empirical formulae based on lexical-grammati...

Linguistic politeness (LP) refers to the set of “linguistic features mediating norms of social behaviour, in relation to such notions as courtesy, rapport, deference and distance” (Crystal 2008). Although researchers (e.g. Eelen 2001, Watts 2003) agree that it is intimately connected to normativity, group hierarchy and cooperation – the core questions of human ethology and human behavioural eco...

Politeness is mainly investigated in verbal and written communicative encounters. This study novelistically examines politeness politic behavior as a nonverbal event concerning driving habits Asia. based on four variables that are the country of origin, gender, age, level education. The novel framework Brown Levinson’s (1987) theory. revealed Asian drivers use deference, hedges, indirectness to...

this study was an attempt to investigate iranian and spanish intermediate nonnative english learners’ request strategies to their faculty. to this aim, 74 (50 iranian and 24 spanish) nonnative english intermediate learners participated in this study. a discourse completion test (dct) was used to elicit the request strategies used by the participants. the findings suggested the participants empl...

The Nelson-Oppen combination method is ubiquitous in Satisfiability Modulo Theories solvers. However, one of its major drawbacks is to be restricted to disjoint unions of theories. We investigate the problem of extending this combination method to particular non-disjoint unions of theories connected via bridging functions. The motivation is, e.g., to solve verification problems expressed in a c...

The speech act is an indispensable part of social communication. Among them, the acts between Chinese parents and their children have received more extensive attention in-depth research. Under theory act, this study makes a on changes family members during winter vacation from perspective politeness principle, cross-cultural differences, other factors. Based relevant theories, attempts to analy...

The aim of this contribution is twofold. On the one hand it will attempt to place various papers special issue in perspective vis-a-vis each other and notion ideology -the overall topic 6th International Pragmatics Conference driving theme behind present volume. goal provide a broader view on different as whole, summarize their claims without repeating what they have already said, but by lookin...

this study examined naturally-occurring university classroom interactions at iranian universities and provided an analysis of silence patterns as politeness strategies used by male and female students. since empirical studies of silence in classroom settings are scarce, this paper aimed to explain such phenomena using participant interviews, classroom observation and detailed discourse analysis...