Citation: Odom KJ, Omland KE, McCaffrey DR, Monroe MK, Christhilf JL, Roberts NS and Logue DM (2016) Typical Males and Unconventional Females: Songs and Singing Behaviors of a Tropical, Duetting Oriole in the Breeding and Non-Breeding Season. Front. Ecol. Evol. 4:14. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00014 Typical Males and Unconventional Females: Songs and Singing Behaviors of a Tropical, Duetting Oriole...

While most dialogue systems restrict themselves to the adjustment of the propositional contents, our work concentrates on the generation of stylistic variations in order to improve the user’s perception of the interaction. To accomplish this goal, our approach integrates a social theory of politeness with a cognitive theory of emotions. We propose a hierarchical selection process for politeness...

The present research is aimed at investigating how the politeness of the speakers of Urdu is influenced by their relative social status in society. The researcher took politeness theory of Brown and Levinson (1978, 1987) as a model. To observe politeness of Urdu speakers, speech act of apology with different strategies was selected. A Discourse Completion Task (DCT) was used as an instrument to...

OBJECTIVE To assess masturbation prevalence, frequency, and associations with partnered sexual behaviors. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING The United States of America. PARTICIPANTS Nationally representative samples of adolescents aged 14 to 17 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Solo masturbation, partnered sexual behaviors, and condom use. RESULTS Across age groups, more males (73.8%...

Non-competitive and non-threatening aspects of social hierarchy, such as politeness, are universal among human cultures, and might have evolved from ritualized submission in primates; however, these behaviors have rarely been studied. Honorific language is a type of polite linguistic communication that plays an important role in human social interactions ranging from everyday conversation to in...

the present research is aimed at investigating how the politeness of the speakers of urdu is influenced by their relative social status in society. the researcher took politeness theory of brown and levinson (1978, 1987) as a model. to observe politeness of urdu speakers, speech act of apology with different strategies was selected. a discourse completion task (dct) was used as an instrument to...