Browsing by Subject "Pragmatics"
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Communication Sequences and Survival Analysis
(Springer, 2016) -
Composition and Dynamics of Multiparty Casual Conversation: A Corpus-based Analysis
This thesis provides a quantitative examination of multiparty casual talk, a speech genre which is fundamental to human social life. Multiparty casual conversation has been reported to comprise chat and chunk phases, where ... -
Denoting Offence
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The discourse value of social signals at topic change moments
(2015)The dynamics of social interactions during human-human conversation have attracted the attention of many researchers aiming at improving the naturalness of automatic dialogue systems and creating socially aware machines. ... -
A discourse-analytic framework for conversational engagement in online discussion tasks, part 2: level of analytic depth
(2015)What do we mean by “engagement” in the context of online discussions? How do we recognise it? Is it quantifiable? Can we find ways of analysing it that might be of assistance to task designers, instructors, and students? This ... -
Gender differences in the language of the Map Task dialogues
(IEEE, 2017) -
A Hedging Annotation Scheme Focused on Epistemic Phrases for Informal Language
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015)Most existing annotation schemes for hedging were created to aid in the automatic identification of hedges in formal language styles, such as used in scholarly prose. Language with informal tone, typical in much web ... -
Some Puzzles of Politeness and Impoliteness within a Formal Semantics of Offensive Language
(Springer, 2015)Puzzles of linguistic politeness and impoliteness are outlined. A framework for articulating formal semantic theories of linguistic politeness and impoliteness is adopted. The framework provides a foundation for a ... -
Taboo Semantics
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Taking Offence
(2020)Between speakers and addressees, the perception of offensiveness in natural language may diverge distinctly to the potential for divergence of understanding of lexical content. Historically, the perception of offensiveness ...