This study employed content analysis to investigate the attributes of comments on official movie weblogs (blogs), and the possible influences of these attributes on the consumers or companies of the blog. The analysis of 1500 comments on official movie blogs indicated that subjective comments allow the blog companies to recognize consumer attitudes toward movies. Emotional comments positively i...

Conversation is like an intricate partner dance and behavioral convergence, or the similarity in observable behaviors of partners over time, can lead to shared understanding, changed beliefs and increased rapport. This article describes a synthesis of three strands of our work on finegrained analysis of conversational interaction in peer tutoring at the paralinguistic and verbal levels, in an a...

This paper describes the collection and processing of a pilot speech corpus annotated in dialogue acts. The Mandarin Topic-oriented Conversational Corpus (MTCC) consists of annotated transcripts and sound files of conversations between two familiar persons. Particular features of spoken Mandarin, such as discourse particles and paralinguistic sounds, are taken into account in the orthographical...

The fuzzy logical model of perception (FLMP) has been successful in accounting for a variety of unimodal and multimodal aspects of speech perception. This same framework has been extended to account for the perception of emotion from the face and the voice. The FLMP accurately describes how perceivers evaluate and integrate these sources of information to determine the affect signaled by the ta...

The article justifies the relevance of study convinciveness and persuasiveness categories in commercial discourse. An attempt is made to analyze genre «сommercial letter» accordance with discursive strategies tactics that promote effective business communication activities. Based on pragma-linguistic analysis written discourse, typological characteristics letters are defined. ways implementing ...

Today’s writing instruction performance is greatly aided by oral and nonverbal communication. This study intends to contextualize the lecturer’s visual modes regarding paralinguistic features in class. Data were gathered from PSETs’ self-rated questionnaire that durably video recorded. analysed using IBM SPSS version 20 for descriptive factor analysis, as well ELAN’s software non-verbal linguis...

Paralinguistic cues are powerful non-verbal communication elements that have the ability to make even good news sound horrible or bad news more palatable. Drawing upon the hermeneutical phenomenology communication theory of Dilthey (1961) and Shannon’s (1949) communication channel model, this thesis targeted the six primary paralinguistic cues of fluidity, articulation, sonority, tempo, emotion...