Politeness Strategies Used in the First Trump-Clinton Presidential Debate

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Strategies Used in Translation of Comedies with Emphasis on Politeness

The present study sought to investigate the translation strategies in an American sitcom in Iranian EFLclasses with emphasis on politeness. The participants were 50 male and female Iranian undergraduateB.A. and M.A. students majoring in English Translation, and English language teaching at the IslamicAzad University, North Tehran. The participants were administered three tests. A multiple choic...

Predicting election trends with Twitter: Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump

Forecasting opinion trends from real-time social media is the long-standing goal of modern-day big-data analytics. Despite its importance, there has been no conclusive scientific evidence so far that social media activity can capture the opinion of the general population at large. Here we develop analytic tools combining statistical physics of complex networks, percolation theory, natural langu...

Three-ring presidential debate

What was intended to be a gen­ uine discussion o f p o lit ica l views quickly degenerated into a series of “ assassinations,” verbal rampages, attempts to get dates and random filibustor-style campaign strategies. In what could at times be consid­ ered a theatrical farce ra ther than a political debate, 10 tickets vying for Notre Dame student body presi­ d e n t and v ice p re s id e n t m e t...

The debate that wasn't: the public and the Clinton plan.