Effective persuasive speaking is requisite for successful academic, professional, and social life (Nippold, 2007, in Heilmann et al. 2020). However, there dearth literature that recommends an effective rhetorical structure addresses the most pressing recurring needs of non-native English public speakers – communication apprehension (Bastida & Yapo, 2019) problems organizing outlining ideas ...

Abstract: Communication is an important element in the life of society. In everyday, people communicate verbally using language or words, but not all humans are able to interact only verbal communication. Humans who less than perfect, such as with mental disability, find it difficult receive messages language. Mental disability a and intellectual disorder below average. As Karangpatihan Village...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in improving aspects of the interaction between humans and computers. The facial expressions play an essential role in social interactions with other human beings. As indicated by Mehrabian [1], in face-to-face human communication only 7% of the communicative message is due to linguistic language, 38% is due to paralanguage, while 55% of it is t...

This study examined the effectiveness of enhancing humanagent interaction through the use of nonverbal behaviors. A taxonomy is described, which organizes nonverbal behaviors into functional categories and the manner in which they can be embodied (i.e. through gesture, posture, paralanguage, eye contact and facial expression). Prototype computer characters were created according to guidelines e...

This  article  outlines  founding  principles  and  a  guiding  strategy  for  the  translation  of Apollinaire’s  poetry;  many  aspects  of  the  strategy  reflect  the  convictions  and  practices  of Apollinaire’s own poetics. But the article is particularly concerned to argue that translation’s task is the projection of the source text into its future, rather than being an act of recuperat...

Earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. Apart from Mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, Taiwo (2007), Adetunji (2009), and Ademilokun (2015), who employ discourse analytical tools in analyzing the political speeches, there exist ver...

earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. apart from mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, taiwo (2007), adetunji (2009), and ademilokun (2015), who employ discourse analytical tools in analyzing the political speeches, there exist ver...

Non-verbal communication involves encoding, transmission and decoding of non-lexical cues and is realized using vocal (e.g. prosody) or visual (e.g. gaze, body language) channels during conversation. These cues perform the function of maintaining conversational flow, expressing emotions, and marking personality and interpersonal attitude. In particular, non-verbal cues in speech such as paralan...

Traditional dialogue systems use a fixed silence threshold to detect the end of users’ turns. Such a simplistic model can result in system behaviour that is both interruptive and unresponsive, which in turn affects user experience. Various studies have observed that human interlocutors take cues from speaker behaviour, such as intonation, paralanguage, content, and gestures among others, to coo...