Results 81 to 90 of about 30,024 (305)

Feeling Right Matters: The Impact of Character Design–Appeal Match on Social Media Engagement

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In today's saturated digital environment, brands increasingly use characters to capture attention and engage consumers on social media. Yet little research has examined how brand character design interacts with advertising appeals in social media communication.
Luyao Hao, Takeshi Moriguchi
wiley   +1 more source

The Pragmatics of Political Apology in Ghana’s Contemporary Politics

open access: yesLegon Journal of the Humanities, 2015
The paper discusses political apology in the 4 the republic of Ghanaian contemporary politics from 2013 to 2015. It taps its data from apologetic speeches by political officials and from apologies rendered to politicians.
Kofi Agyekum
doaj   +1 more source

Comment s’excuser en français et en polonais: étude pragma-sémantique

open access: yesNeophilologica, 2018
This paper focuses on discursive routines used to express apology in email exchange. We adopt a contrastive (French-Polish) and intercultural approach, integrating apology in the politeness theory. We start from the hypothesis of cognitive grammars (see
Francis Grossmann, Anna Krzyżanowska
doaj   +1 more source

AN APOLOGY OF CARNAP [PDF]

open access: yesManuscrito, 2015
This paper is focused on dismissive metaontological views about ontology. The paper's first section deals with radical dismissivism: a view which I interpret as Carnap's (1956). The second section approaches moderate dismissivism: a view which I interpret as Hirsch's (2011).
openaire   +4 more sources

Mitigating Chatbot Service Failures: The Roles of Anthropomorphism, Acknowledgment, and Apology

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how chatbot anthropomorphism shapes consumer responses to service failure by distinguishing between process failure and outcome failure and by testing alternative recovery responses. Across three pretests (N = 30, 120 and 240) and two scenario‐based experiments (Study 1: N = 346; Study 2: N = 778), consumers evaluated ...
Juyon Lee, Wujin Chu, Rajat Roy
wiley   +1 more source

Communicative and Pragmatical Specifity of the English Ethical Apology

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2015
The article presents the results of analysis aimed at defining communicative and pragmatical specifity of the ethical apology in the English culture which is defined as the form of restoration of a social image of one of the speakers who has broken the ...
Valentina Aleksandrovna Litvinova
doaj   +1 more source

‘Apology’ versus ‘no apology’ contrast.

open access: yes, 2014
Displayed at ...
Bernd Weber (128432)   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Apology in the Criminal Justice Setting: An Update

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series, 2017
Apology has many benefits to offenders and victims. The last 15 years have produced worthwhile quantitative and qualitative studies that have refined our understanding of apology, but have also identified the diversity in what can be said in apology and
Carrie Petrucci
doaj  

Saying sorry in Chinese: a meta-analysis of apologies and its implications

open access: yesJournal of World Languages
This paper presents a meta-analysis of apology realisation in Chinese. Drawing on the Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realisation Patterns (CCSARP) framework, we synthesise 38 quantitative studies published between 1990 and 2024 to examine how social distance,
Ning Puyu, House Juliane, Fidrmuc Jarko
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy