Online social media are a perfect text source for stance analysis. Stance in human communication is concerned with speaker attitudes, beliefs, feelings and opinions. Expressions of stance are associated with the speakers' view of what they are talking about and what is up for discussion and negotiation in the intersubjective exchange. Taking stance is thus crucial for the social construction of...

<p class="abstract"><span lang="EN-AU">This study aims to uncover how Luke Combs uses linguistic devices in the lyrics of "Six Feet Apart" take stance on COVID-19 pandemic. A thorough data's content was done within constraints "Appraisal" analytical methodology. The results show that positive values are preferred over negative ones. data recorded under "affect," which totaled 42 and...

Our aim is to implement a mind-reading capability in machines and artifacts. We give a formulation of mind-reading applicable to machines, emphasizing the importance of a human stance to a machine in mind-reading. Next we demonstrate how the stance a human takes can modify the recognition of intention in an object/agent, taking as examples experiments conducted by us, i.e., a moving box experim...

This is a short commentary on some aspects of D.C.Dennett’s book The Intentional Stance. The paper criticises the "intentional stance" as not providing real insight into the nature of intelligence because it ignores the question HOW behaviour is produced. The paper argues that only by taking the "design stance" can we understand the difference between intelligent and unintelligent ways of doing...

Stance-taking is considered as one of the fundamental properties of human communication (Jaffe, 2009). It is pervasive, intersubjective, and collaborative. While a good deal of research has investigated the expression of stance in English, much less has been done in Chinese. In this study, we draw upon the five-million-word Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus of Modern Chinese to investigate a comp...

This article examines divorce professionals’ attitudes and stances in response to common criticisms of how they deal with outcomes for fathers, according which men are discriminated against negotiations on the custody living arrangements their children. The study applied relatively new qualitative attitude approach, hence a further aim was test its fitness studying attitudes. Eighteen Finnish f...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate and evaluate the timing and amount of muscle activity during forward-stepping motion. [Subjects and Methods] Seven healthy subjects participated in this study. The task was to step forward from a static standing position. Timing and amount of muscle activity were measured during the task. Muscle activities of the stance leg and the swing le...