Politeness is mainly investigated in verbal and written communicative encounters. This study novelistically examines politeness politic behavior as a nonverbal event concerning driving habits Asia. based on four variables that are the country of origin, gender, age, level education. The novel framework Brown Levinson’s (1987) theory. revealed Asian drivers use deference, hedges, indirectness to...

In our study „Polite responses to polite requests‟, 1 we reported four experiments. In Experiment 1, people rated the politeness of 18 types of indirect requests, such as Could you tell me where Jordan Hall is? In Experiments 2, 3, and 4, other people rated the politeness of various responses to these requests, such as Yes, I can—it's down the street and Down the street. From the findings, we a...

While most dialogue systems restrict themselves to the adjustment of the propositional contents, our work concentrates on the generation of stylistic variations in order to improve the user’s perception of the interaction. To accomplish this goal, our approach integrates a social theory of politeness with a cognitive theory of emotions. We propose a hierarchical selection process for politeness...

The present study tries to investigate linguistically optimism in English and Arabic religious discourses. language of discourse is rich be examined by the researchers. Optimism carried out different pragmatic aspects. aims at identifying various strategies which conveyed through eclectic model adopted analyse data. It consists Searle’s (1969) speech act theory, Grice’s (1975) conversational im...