This study aims to identify the types of moves and politeness strategies used in online corporate apology (OCA) Arabic, posted on customers’ complaints/negative reviews Twitter. Additionally, compares Arabic with English, Japanese, Chinese explore cross-cultural similarities differences OCA. Following growth social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, various studies have focus...

Abstract The role of intelligent agents becomes more social as they are expected to act in direct interaction, involvement and/or interdependency with humans and other artificial entities, Human-Agent Teams (HAT). highly interdependent dynamic nature teamwork demands correctly calibrated trust among team members. Trust violations an inevitable aspect the cycle since repairing damaged proves be ...

"Politeness" is a culturally defined pattern of language use that enables the speaker to formulate appropriate speech acts like an apology. The act apology part pragmatics study and belongs expressive acts. However, it cannot be separated from sociolinguistics because social factors such as context, gender, participants' relationship can all have impact on how apologizers make their apologies. ...

Background. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation in single hematopoietic cells, muscle fibers, oocytes, and from tiny amount of tumor tissues and degraded clinical specimens has been reported in many medical publications. External DNA contamination, notoriously difficult to avoid, threatens the integrity of such studies. Methodology/Principal Findings. Employing a phylogenetic approach, we analy...

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In A Mathematician’s Apology [1] G. H. Hardy states, “8712 and 9801 are the only four-figure numbers which are integral multiples of their reversals”; and, he further comments that “this is not a serious theorem, as it is not capable of any significant generalization.” However, Hardy’s comment may have been short-sighted. In 1966, A. Sutcliffe [2] expanded this obscure fact about reversals. Ins...

the pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of language use vary across different situations, languages, and cultures. the separation of these two facets of language use can help to map out the socio-cultural norms and conventions as well as the linguistic forms and strategies that underlie the pragmatic performance of different language speakers in a variety of target language use situatio...