There is a growing interest in the Human-Robot Interaction community towards studying the effect of the attitude of a social robot during the interaction with users. Similar to human-human interaction, variations in the robot’s attitude may cause substantial differences in the perception of the robot. In this work, we present a preliminary study to assess the effects of the robot’s verbal attit...

This study involving 60 Japanese learners of English investigated the effects of various kinds of form-focused instruction on learners’ ability to comprehend and produce polite requests in English. Each treatment group received one of the following: (a) deductive instruction; (b) inductive instruction with problem-solving tasks; or (c) inductive instruction with structured input tasks. These ta...

This paper aims to cast light on the somewhat neglected area of mock politeness. The principle objectives are to describe the ways that mock politeness is talked about and performed. In order to investigate such usage, I analyse data from informal, naturally occurring conversations in a UK-based online forum. The paper introduces a range of metalinguistic expressions which are used to refer to ...

The potential for conversational agents offering mental health and legal counseling in an autonomous, interactive, vitally accessible environment is getting highlighted due to the increased access information through internet mobile devices. A agent should be able offer higher engagement mimicking real-time sessions. ability empathize or comprehend feel another person’s emotions experiences a c...

This study entitled Women’s Language Features Used by Taylor Swift in Grammy Interview Video 2015 is aimed to identify women’s language features and analyze the function used Swift. All of data were taken from utterances delivered The transcribe video made author. Documentation method note-taking applied collecting data. In analyzing data, Mixed-method was using Lakoff (2004) theory about propo...

Language makes people understand each other and interact in daily life. Most importantly, language has become an important tool communication. The way men women speak is different. They have different features although they the same language. title of this undergraduate thesis "Women's Features Used by Elle Evans Kissing Booth 2 Movie". main purpose research was to identify describe types women...

<p>One of the cultural elements communication that must be considered is politeness. Politeness indispensable in communication, especially Southeast Asian cultures, which have degrees As aspects affect communicative language, politeness would expected society. One implementations polite language used Buginese traditional wedding ceremony. In order to reveal and its strategies ceremony, st...

This study aimed to investigate the differences between politeness strategies used by university EFL learners and American native speakers in making disagreements. Using Brown Levinson’s (1978) model, examined variables of gender, social status, distance. The participants were 63 (41 females 22 males) 20 (10 10 males). who took part this studying Department English Language Literature at Univer...

Introduction of Cultural Linguistics in the modern ages of communication can address the issue of cultural schema transfer in online communication. Despite a good number of studies on a compliment, this pragmatic behavior has not been examined in the context of online communications such as social networking sites where compliments are commonly paid and received. The present study aimed to exam...