Animal idioms are widespread in daily life; they have become inextricably linked to human existence and language. Additionally, acquired additional attributive connotative meanings – which differ from one culture another - addition their literal lexical meanings. not well-investigated, especially a pragmatic point of view. These set expressions vary language as well. Hence, this paper examines ...

Children represent a potentially crucial user segment for conversational interfaces. Computer systems interacting with children need to be tailored for these users so that they will understand child intent and so that the child will have a positive and successful experience with the system. This study focuses on discourse analysis of spoken-language childmachine interactions. In particular, pol...

This paper shows the connection between emoticons and politeness in written computer-mediated communication. It studies if there are some differences in the use of emoticon between Czech and English written tweets. The assumptions about the use of emoticons were based on the use of greetings and thanks in real, faceto-face situations. The first assumption, that welcome greeting phrase would be ...

Presidential debate is one of an interesting examples to be analyzed in terms politeness strategies. This research the strategies used by presidential candidates Indonesia a program during election period 2019. employed qualitative descriptive. The data were form spoken utterances which collected from participants. sources this videos and transcripts second fourth debates taken youtube google. ...

The present study examined the different levels of (im)politeness strategies in expressing request, apology, and refusal speech acts across intermediate and advanced Iranian EFL learners to identify their attitudinal ratings of their produced structures in terms of pragmatic success and (im)politeness mannerism. A discourse completion test including 2 Likert scales on attitudinal appropriatenes...

No event reading Event reading No agent-oriented modifiers Agent-oriented modifiers Subjects are possessives subjects are arguments by phrases are non-arguments by phrases are arguments No implicit argument control Implicit argument control No aspectual modifiers Aspectual modifiers Modifiers like frequent, constant only with plural Modifiers like frequent, constant appear with singular May be ...

While children’s acquisition of lexically encoded politeness formulas has been investigated to a certain extent, little is known about their sensitivity to prosody and facial expressions as cues to politeness. The goal of this paper is to test the ability of 3-year-old American English-speaking children to recognize a speaker’s polite stance in their native language based on prosodic and facial...

This paper presents a corpus-linguistic case study on the usage of Attitudinal Past in spoken communication. As representatives of the phenomenon, the two forms ‘I wondered’ and ‘I was wondering’ were selected. The aim is twofold: the first aim is to discuss frequent collocations, to analyse grammatical and structural features and to examine discourse factors governing the use of Attitudinal Pa...

Sentiment detection of a given expression involves interaction with its component constituents through rules such as polarity propagation, reversal or neutralization. Such compositionality-based sentiment detection usually performs better than a vote-based bag-ofwords approach. However, in some contexts, the polarity of the adjectival modifier may not always be correctly determined by such rule...