We apply of Game Theory to linguistic politeness, considering requests as the canonical speech act where polite expressions factor in. As making a request is necessarily both strategic and asymmetric, we adapt Trust Games, modifying them by the notions of reputation, face, and repetition. Given this framework, our results show that although some polite requests may not be rational under one-sho...

This thesis is an investigation of phenomena at the interface between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, with the aim of arguing for a view of semantic interpretation as lexicallydriven yet contextually dependent. I examine regular, generative processes which operate over the lexicon to induce verbal sense shifts, and discuss the interaction of these processes with the linguistic or discourse c...

In this article we present an approach to the automatic discovery of term similarities, which may serve as a basis for a number of term-oriented knowledge mining tasks. The method for term comparison combines internal (lexical similarity) and two types of external criteria (syntactic and contextual similarities). Lexical similarity is based on sharing lexical constituents (i.e. term heads and m...

abstract β-thalassemia major (β –tm) is the most common thalassemia severe phenotype among iranians. in recent years, molecular understanding of pathogenesis of β –tm has provided a great opportunity regarding diagnostic issues. creating comprehensive molecular databases provides highly sensitive diagnostic tools for β –tm and effective prenatal diagnosis (pnd) molecular screening tests. despit...

Linguistic politeness (LP) refers to the set of “linguistic features mediating norms of social behaviour, in relation to such notions as courtesy, rapport, deference and distance” (Crystal 2008). Although researchers (e.g. Eelen 2001, Watts 2003) agree that it is intimately connected to normativity, group hierarchy and cooperation – the core questions of human ethology and human behavioural eco...

BACKGROUND Identifying partial mappings between two terminologies is of special importance when one terminology is finer-grained than the other, as is the case for the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO), mainly used for research purposes, and SNOMED CT, mainly used in healthcare. OBJECTIVES To investigate and contrast lexical and logical approaches to deriving partial mappings between HPO and SNO...

The present paper zooms in on levels of pragmatic awareness and the range stereotypical presuppositions as appearing one specific text, i.e. Soldier’s Handbook to Iraq. This text was made available 1st infantry division US Army when they proceeded Iraq 2003. In mixed-methods study we demonstrate that handbook systematically uses what Beukeboom Burgers (2019) call ‘biased language’ is cohesively...

Pedagogical agent research seeks to exploit Reeves and Nass’s Media Equation theory, which holds that users respond to interactive media as if they were social actors. Investigations have tended to focus on the media used to realize the pedagogical agent, e.g., the use of animated talking heads and voices, and the results have been mixed. This paper focuses instead on the manner in which a peda...

this study was an attempt to investigate iranian and spanish intermediate nonnative english learners’ request strategies to their faculty. to this aim, 74 (50 iranian and 24 spanish) nonnative english intermediate learners participated in this study. a discourse completion test (dct) was used to elicit the request strategies used by the participants. the findings suggested the participants empl...

We consider the application of Game Theory in the modeling of different strategies of politeness. In particular, we examine how differences in the linguistic form of requests and proposals map onto the structure of the game being played by interlocutors. We show how considerations of social wants [1, 2] and coordination and cooperation motivate these differences. First, we adapt the notion of o...