From confrontation toward negotiation

Confrontation and Ridicule

Ridicule can be used in order to create concurrence as well as to enhance antagonism. This paper deals with ridicule that is used by a critic when he is responding to a standpoint or to a reason advanced in support of a standpoint. Ridicule profits from humor’s good reputation, and correctly so, even when it is used in argumentative contexts. However, ridicule can be harmful to a discussion. Th...

No Negotiation, Limited Negotiation, and Extended Negotiation in Proactive Focus on Form in Vocabulary Acquisition

Negotiation, as an interactional strategy and proactive focus on form (FoF) have received increased attention in second language research. The combination of negotiation and proactive FoF, however, has not been examined in relation to L2 vocabulary learning. To address this gap, the present study investigated how the amount of negotiation and proactive FoF impacted learners’ vocabulary knowledg...

Toward Natural Turn-Taking in a Virtual Human Negotiation Agent

In this paper we assess our progress toward creating a virtual human negotiation agent with fluid turn-taking skills. To facilitate the design of this agent, we have collected a corpus of human-human negotiation roleplays as well as a corpus of Wizard-controlled human-agent negotiations in the same roleplay scenario. We compare the natural turn-taking behavior in our human-human corpus with tha...

A Critical Rationalist Inquiry of Managerial Epistemology toward the Confrontation of the Unawareness Problem

Pappus-Desargues digraph confrontation

Like the Coxeter graph became reattached into the Klein graph in [3], the Levi graphs of the 93 and 103 self-dual configurations, known as the Pappus and Desargues (k-transitive) graphs P and D (where k = 3), also admit reattachments of the distance-(k − 1) graphs of half of their oriented shortest cycles via orientation assignments on their common (k−1)-arcs, concurrent for P and opposite for ...