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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"polite"”.
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Why can't smart phones be polite, too? : what would a phone need to know?
… make use of such information in order to behave "politely". We began by investigating the human definition of "politeness" in the context of handling voice calls and text messages, and we found the common properties shared by the scenarios where a device is expected to behave politely. Next, we …
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The Ambigu De Vers Et De Prose: The Art of Polite Satire in Seventeenth Century France
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Being polite in your second life : a discourse analysis of students’ interchanges in an online collaborative learning environment
… than even a decade ago. Being interested in how politeness phenomena as universal principles in human interaction played a role in the process of online collaborative learning in a graduate-level course, I conducted a naturalistic inquiry to explore students’ interaction through the lens of Brown …
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Impact of Lawyer Sex, and Lawyer and Defendant Use of Polite Language on Observer’s Perception of the Lawyer’s Job Performance and Credibility, and Verdict Outcome
… more with a particular sex role, such as politeness, which tends to be more stereotypically associated with women. Given that the legal profession tends to be more dominated by men, the current study examines how: the sex of a lawyer, the lawyer’s politeness level, and the politeness level …
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Internet users' responses to ai through the prism of politeness /
… Users’ Reactions to AI Through the Prism of Politeness. The subject are evaluative stances adopted toward AI by Lithuanian-speaking and English-speaking Internet users as a reaction to AI approached in the thesis through the prism of politeness. The aim of this research is to establish the …
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Acoustic and perceptual analyses of politeness in Japanese speech
In order to examine potential acoustic cues for politeness in Japanese speech, fO and temporal aspects of polite and casual utterances of two question sentences spoken by six male native speakers were acoustically analysed. The analysis showed that fO movement of the final part of utterances and …
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Η ΕΚΦΡΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΥΓΕΝΕΙΑΣ ΣΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΑ ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ
… IS AN ATTEMPT TO INVESTIGATE THE STATUS OF POLITENESS WITHIN GREEK CULTURE AND COMPARE IT TO THAT OF ENGLISH . AMONG THE BASIC AIMS OF THIS UNDERTAKING IS TO ESTABLISH THE REASONS WHICH HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO A WIDESPREAD IMPRESSION THAT THE GREEKS ARE IMPOLITE OR AT LEAST LESS POLITE THAN THE …
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Of good use or serious pleasure : Vitruvius Britannicus and early eighteenth century architectural discourse
… architectural achievements, consumed by polite society. The twentieth century view of Vitruvius Britannicus, stems from John Surnmerson's seminal work, Architecture in Britain 1530-1830. It posits Vitruvius Britannicus as a stylistic manifesto that served the particular interests of Colen …
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Cortesía Convencional versus Cortesía Interpretada: Estudio Del Habla DE Colombia
Politeness in speech is a complex phenomenon which requires a detailed and profound analysis. This linguistic phenomenon can not be understood only under the conventional perspective of the universal models that govern traditional politeness. Normative or conventional politeness in most languages …
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The Failed Principle of Reformed Female Politeness – Exploring Tactical Silence and Voices in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
… Based on the debates concerning the culture of politeness in the eighteenth century, some critics see Elinor's social doctrine as the novel celebrated form of polite female manners. However, the paper will argue how the novel instead criticizes the social and intellectual impact this the …
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Conversation and Performance in Seventeenth-Century French Salon Culture
… through performance. It seeks to understand how polite amateurs regarded professional performers, and vice versa. I use the study of performance to reveal distinctive constraints and liberties of early modern aristocratic culture, to identify and compare its aesthetic and moral values, to uncover …
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Ghosts of the Pacific: imagined masculinities in British voyage literature, 1697-1818
… identities flouted the traditional signifiers of polite masculinity like land ownership, marriage, and heredity privilege. Commercial and imperial expansion into the Pacific revealed, I argue, the profound instability of British masculinity, thus rendering the Pacific a site of both anxiety and …
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Cross-cultural pragmatics: Politeness for the customer in spoken aspects of service in the restaurant in Australian English and Japanese
… recognising that the speaker is trying to speak politely. Sometimes we do not feel very comfortable with someone else’s speech, even though their expressions might be very polite with the choice of specific linguistic forms to show a high level of formality such as terms of address and specific …
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Aspects of Japanese computer-mediated communication : linguistics and socio-cultural perspectives
… the thesis further discusses qualitatively politeness and impoliteness behaviours in the two target BBS websites with contrasting linguistic features.</p> <p>This study points out that one theory of politeness proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987) can explain impolite behaviour in Channel 2, …
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Public quarrelling in the Romantic period: the rhetorical styles of John Burgoyne, Thomas Paine, William Cobbett, and Percy Bysshe Shelley
… Burgoyne’s suppression of anger and use of a polite style of arguing to Thomas Paine’s gradual transition from a humble quarrelling approach in his pamphlet The Case of the Officers of Excise to a more openly angry and sarcastic attitude in his later works in support of America’s independence. …
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Face Management and the Role of Interpersonal Politeness Variables in Euphemism Production and Comprehension
… conversation using Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory framework. In Experiments 1--3, undergraduate students read short scenarios that depicted a hypothetical, unfinished conversation between two interlocutors about a taboo topic; in Experiment 4, participants adopted the speaker's …
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Satisfaction with Police Services among Residents of Washington County, Tennessee: A Survey of Citizens' Attitudes and Opinions.
… with police services when compared by race, polite treatment by the police, type of contact with police, and night walking safety. However, no significant difference was found in satisfaction with police services when compared by socioeconomic status, fair treatment by the police, visibility …
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Satisfaction with Police Services among Residents of Elizabethton, Tennessee.
… with police services when compared by race, polite and fair treatment by the police, the type of contact with police, and visibility of patrol cars in neighborhoods. However, no significant difference was found in satisfaction with police services when compared by socioeconomic status, night …
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Conversational Interaction and Gender in Fiction /
… of conversation and choice of lexicon, also politeness and hesitations. The results show that women use more tag questions and hedges than men. The research has confirmed the theory that men and women speak about different topics and that they have different specific lexicon characteristics. …
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"A painterly performance of politeness: Jean-Étienne Liotard’s ""Still Life: Tea Set"" and identity in eighteenth-century England"
… the still life in relation to the phenomena of politeness and superficial self-fashioning, or the ancien régime of identity—a concept put forth by Dror Wahrman. When considered within the historically situated themes of eighteenth-century consumerism, the emergence of the Georgian middle-class, …
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