We present a multi-lingual Lexical Resource (LR) developed in the context of a lexicographic project that involves the development of user-oriented dictionaries for immigrants in Greece. The LR caters to languages that as of yet remain disconnected, and also encompasses a variety of styles that are relevant to communicative situations that the target group is most likely to cope with. We are cu...

Students encountering each other for the first time were asked to converse for 30 minutes either face-to-face or through online chat. Conversational quality was compared to examine the possibility that specific social differences in communicative style are reduced or erased in online chat. As expected, gender differences evident in face-to-face conversation were absent online. However, conversa...

Recommendations on Preparing for the Part “Writing” of Unified State Exam in English (Case Study Irkutsk Region) Results. The study shows that most graduates 2022 successfully completed basic level task new format (84.2% - “Communicative task” criterion, 92.8% “Organization text” criterion). lexico-grammatical aspect text was only one presented difficulties (46.3%). participants with low or med...

How do children decide which elements of an action demonstration are important to reproduce in the context of an imitation game? We tested whether selective imitation of a demonstrator's actions may be based on the same search for relevance that drives adult interpretation of ostensive communication. Three groups of 18-month-old infants were shown a toy animal either hopping or sliding (action ...

The article is devoted to identifying specifics of modern popular science media discourse. authors conduct a comparative communicative-pragmatic and stylistic analysis composition, speech means discursive techniques educational radio programs which have such feature as explicated dialogicality — representing conversation between journalist an expert. leading principle program dialogization: act...

A study examined the relationship among instructor socio-communicative style, argumentativeness, and verbal aggressiveness in the college classroom. Participants were 139 undergraduate students enrolled at a small southern university who completed the Assertiveness-Responsiveness Measure (Richmond and McCroskey, 1995), as well as modified versions of the Argumentativeness scale (Infante and Ran...

In dealing with the different ways in which argumentative styles manifest themselves various communicative practices from several domains, van Eemeren and Garssen start a definition of style that is connected pragma-dialectical notion strategic maneuvering. Depending on moves are made, dialectical routes followed, considerations brought to bear, they make general distinction between detached en...

It has been suggested that since verbal communication (i.e., using human language to represent the world and pass on information) can be seen as a subsystem of a larger system of human communication, it therefore exhibits all features of an open communication system (cf. Katz and Kahn 1966). The following characteristics provide an insight into the nature of ́the speechmaking system ́ from this p...

While there is wide acknowledgement in NLP of the utility of document characterization by genre, it is quite difficult to determine a definitive set of features or even a comprehensive list of genres. This paper addresses both issues. First, with prototype semantics, we develop a hierarchical taxonomy of discourse functions. We implement the taxonomy by developing a new text genre corpus of con...

To confirm the language independency of a communicative prosody generation from input word impression vector, we synthesized communicative Mandarin speech using prosodic characteristics of communicative Japanese speech. The fundamental frequency and duration characteristics of oneword “n” utterances of Japanese were copied to Mandarin through input word attributes. From the subjective impressio...