Appraisal Devices Realizing Attitudes in Donald Trump’s Inaugural Speech: America First

Exploring Rhetorical-Discursive Moves in Hassan Rouhani’s Inaugural Speech: A Eulogy for Moderation

Before a president practically begins his four-year term of office in Iran, a formal inaugural ceremony is held in the parliament. Being attended by national dignitaries and representatives from other countries, the inauguration of Iran's seventh president, Hasan Rouhani, was spectacular in several respects. The current study aimed at investigating the generic structure and rhetorical moves tha...

Appraisal of vital statistics in Latin America.

Speech Synthesis Evaluation: Realizing a Social Turn

Based on a meta-analysis of the state-of-the-art in speech synthesis evaluations, we diagnose the following dilemma: Despite known drawbacks, evaluations predominantly rely on small-scale laboratory tests, typically capturing MOSbased global impressions based on isolated sentences, with the (resynthesized) human voice serving as a gold standard. The problem with such approaches is that synthesi...

Attitudes, self-monitoring, and appraisal behaviors.

This study examined the influence of attitudes and self-monitoring on leniency (elevation accuracy) of performance ratings and personnel decisions. In addition, moderating effects of self-monitoring on the relationship between attitudes and accuracy of ratings and decisions were investigated. Attitudes and self-monitoring tendency of 210 managers-professionals were measured, and ratings provide...

Applying Mitigation Devices in Request Speech Act: Do Gender and Language Proficiency Have any Effect?

This study aims to examine how Iranian EFL learners perceive and apply mitigation devices in request speech act in 4 asymmetrical situations. Role-play interactions and questionnaires were used to elicit the required data from Iranian informants (male vs. female). The results obtained from the analysis of data revealed that in identical situations, male requestors were comparably more certain t...