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“Get lost!” or “I think you should leave now” or “Ok, perhaps I’ll see you around some other time”, humans seem to be expressing things differently in different situations based on various factors: Social relationship between the two people, urgency of an action, their personality, etc. Social interaction of synthetic agents appears believable when it has at least some characteristics of human-...

College students learned to solve chemistry stoichiometry problems with a web-based intelligent tutor that provided hints and feedback, using either polite or direct language. There was a pattern in which students with low prior knowledge of chemistry performed better on subsequent problem-solving tests if they learned from the polite tutor rather than the direct tutor (d=.78 on an immediate te...

This study examines politeness utterances implemented with manaa kanban (ethics plank) in Sundanese society. In Japanese culture, this method is intended as a medium for giving specific directions and instructions. the context of research, Kanban has pragmatic goal motivating people to care about cleanliness natural beauty. It also an effort regenerate discourses way life West Java, which alway...

This politeness study aimed to investigate the different strategies or face-saving acts of teachers as they engaged in casual conversations. utilized discourse analysis research method identifying face-savings exhibited from samples The researcher analysed linguistic corpora using Brown and Levinsons Politeness Theory. Data showed that interactants observed use positive such as: By intensifying...