In a speech community, people utilize their communicative competence which they have acquired from their society as part of their distinctive sociolinguistic identity. They negotiate and share meanings, because they have commonsense knowledge about the world, and have universal practical reasoning. Their commonsense knowledge is embodied in their language. Thus, not only does social life depend...

in a speech community, people utilize their communicative competence which they have acquired from their society as part of their distinctive sociolinguistic identity. they negotiate and share meanings, because they have commonsense knowledge about the world, and have universal practical reasoning. their commonsense knowledge is embodied in their language. thus, not only does social life depend...

In this paper, an attempt is made to automatically identify the activity a meeting is in. The input used in this identification is the frequency of each possible conversational state, and the frequency with which each speakers speaks. A number of classifiers were created and trained, and they performed very well when it was known in advance when an meeting switched activities. The performance, ...

We propose the application of ubiquitous sensor technology to capturing and analyzing the dynamics of multi-party human-to-human conversational interactions. Based on a model of conversational participation structure, we present an analysis of conversational interactions in the open interaction space of a poster presentation session. We argue that the patterns of transition of the conversationa...

This article intends to identify the use and typify the functions of tag questions (TQs) in Persian everyday conversations and dialogic interaction.  The analyses were made based on two data sources:  A documentary film titled Commander in which the participants are engaged in free interactions, and an audio-recorded instrument named CALLFRIEND which consists of Iranian native...