Scholarly peer review is a complex collaborative activity that is increasingly supported by web-based systems. Yet little is known about how reviewers and authors interact in such environments, how criticisms are conveyed, or how the systems may affect the interactions and use of language of reviewers and authors. We looked at one aspect of the interactions between reviewers and authors, the us...

Nowadays, intercultural communication via email among various groups and societies has been increasingly important as an aspect of communication. This research aims at investigating aspects of politeness meaning negotiation via emails exchanged between English and Persian speakers with different cultural backgrounds. The present study also reveals the potentials for using emails to experience c...

This study attempts to investigate politeness strategies and politeness markers in email-request sent byIranian male and female EFL learners to professors. The comparison between strategies used by malesand females in email-request were also analyzed. 52 actual emails of M.A students of TEFL studying atAzad University consisted the data in this research. To analyze the corpus, politeness strate...

Analysis of sociointerpersonal communication patterns among discourse participants is essential to understand the manifestation of and the interpersonalcommunication features realized in online social interaction. The linguistic politeness theory provides an effective framework for such an analysis of sociointerpersonal communication features employed by online language users tomaintain and enh...

Politeness is an integral part of human language variation, e.g. consider the difference in the pragmatic effect of realizing the same communicative goal with either “Get me a glass of water mate!” or “I wonder if I could possibly have some water please?” This paper presents POLLy (Politeness for Language Learning), a system which combines a natural language generator with an AI Planner to mode...

A significant and prevalent aspect of human behavior (as opposed to attitudes and beliefs) which is affected by cultural differences is communication style. We have been developing computational models of an important culturallyvarying aspect of communication: ”politeness” and “etiquette” in social interactions and its role in establishing and managing power and familiarity relationships, urgen...

The use of polite agents is a new approach in order to improve efficiency and naturalism in navigation for PCs in crowded virtual worlds. This paper aims to model the politeness of virtual humans using logic based approaches, subject to theory of politeness decomposed of conventional and interpersonal politeness. To do so, we propose a high level agent architecture combined with normative frame...

In Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory, every speech act is potentially face-threatening to an aspect of the hearer’s or the speaker’s face. Though imminent, face-threat is present in varying degrees, represented as the seriousness or weightiness (W) of FTAx. Interlocutors calculate this using the formula Wx 1⁄4 D(S;H)þ P(H;S)þ Rx, where D(S,H) represents the social distance between interloc...

(Lancaster University, UK) Abstract: The theory of politeness of Brown and Levinson (1978, 1987) has remained the most seminal and influential starting point for cross-cultural and cross-linguistic contrastive pragmatics. Yet is has also provoked countervailing arguments from Ide (1989, 1993), Matsumoto (1989), Gu (1990), Mao (1994) and others, pointing out a Western bias in Brown and Levinson’...