modernity has been interpreted from different angles. scholars such as derida and lyotard talk about the end of modernity and the beginning of a new era called post-modernism, though thinkers like habermas do not believe in that.habermas who do not believe in the end of modernity and the beginning of post-modernism, finds modernism as the only way to human liberty who has chosen a wrong path an...

Several recent research projects in artificial intelligence are devoted to the development of natural, multi-modal user-machine interfaces. Most of the work in this field share, more or less explicitly, the assumption that artificial agents who are competent in multi-modal communication should possess both context awareness and meta-cognitive abilities such as being able to represent and make i...

In this paper we examine the nature of the competences needed for promoting innovation and change. Taking our experiences as the starting point, we examined the literature and interviewed managers and those responsible for innovation in enterprises and discovered that our research findings contradict the simplistic view of innovation facilitation and management material in the work place. Our r...

Abstract This paper mainly discusses the distribution and rhetorical functions of personal pronouns in English Chinese legal news reports which is divided into two narrative types, objective semi-dialogic. Through comparative analysis some texts it finds that differences type directly affect pronouns. In narrative, use third person accounts for an absolute proportion, frequency using first seco...

Applications in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in the notso-distant future include robots that collaborate with factory workers or serve us as caregivers or waitstaff. When offering customized functionality in these dynamic environments, robots need to engage in real-time exchanges with humans. Robots thus need to be capable of participating in smooth turn-taking interactions. The research goal ...

Ecolinguistics contributes to the understanding of how language serves shape, nurture, influence, or destroy human relationships. Language is a part living world that allows directing activity. The focus this study lies in researching speech behavior, which displays connection between past, present and future humanity, demonstrates relationship language, essence life consciousness. results such...

Online argumentative dialog is a rich source of information on popular beliefs and opinions that could be useful to companies as well as governmental or public policy agencies. Compact, easy to read, summaries of these dialogues would thus be highly valuable. A priori, it is not even clear what form such a summary should take. Previous work on summarization has primarily focused on summarizing ...

Social construction of understanding has long been a significant underlying principle of learning and teaching, and while there are many models for the design of online activities to promote this, there are considerably fewer models for the facilitation of such dialogue. This paper examines some of these facilitation models from the point of view of a university tutor seeking to encourage socia...

Emotional argumentation is the result of a rational form of reasoning by the Persuader, subsequently translated into messages by applying some variants of the ‘classical’ argumentation schemes. In this paper, we discuss which may be assumed to be the relative strength of emotional vs. rational persuasion strategies and how this has been represented in a dialogic persuasion testbed.