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How Personal Pronouns Shape Persuasion

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Communication often involves personal pronouns. Consumers, for example, frequently say “I love this restaurant” or “you'll enjoy those shoes.” How do first‐person (e.g., I) and second‐person (e.g., you) singular pronouns shape persuasion? Are communicators correct about which ones are more effective?
Wenyan Yin, Jonah Berger, Yanliu Huang
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German Demonstrative Pronouns in Contrast

Dialogue & Discourse
German has two demonstrative pronouns: the der, die, das paradigm and the dieser, diese, dies(es) paradigm. Previous studies mainly compared the anaphoric use of der with the personal pronoun er and observed that der refers to less prominent antecedents.
Derya Cokal, Klaus von Heusinger
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Thinking with trees: Responding to sympoietic plant relations through visual art

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Amid escalating climate crises, this paper explores how we might rethink our relationship with the natural world, particularly with plants and trees, through the perspectives of visual art. This paper reveals how art invites us to see trees and other plant life not as passive background scenery, but as living beings with their own forms of experience ...
Xiaoyu Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Large language models unlock large text corpora in the search for data on medicinal plants and fungi

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Millions of people worldwide depend on plants and fungi for their healthcare needs, yet our understanding of which species are used medicinally—and how—remains fragmented and incomplete. As part of Kew's Plants for Health service, we developed a pipeline to mine large text corpora for information on natural products, initially focusing on the medicinal
Adam Richard‐Bollans, Francesco Civita, Tiziana A. Cossu, Ifra Saifi, Kristina Patmore, Caroline Wilkinson, Bob Allkin   +6 more
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When money isn't everything: Identifying stage‐based patterns of entrepreneurial resource acquisition

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Scholars often examine how entrepreneurs' existing ties predict resource acquisition. We investigated the reverse: How does the act of pitching generate new ties with investors? Using the context of the Slow Money community, we analyzed social entrepreneurs' pitches to impact investors.
Esther Leibel, Denise Falchetti, Siobhan O'Mahony   +2 more
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Famous protagonists interfere with discourse topicality during pronoun resolution

Glossa Psycholinguistics
The aim of the current study is to assess the impact of the wider discourse on pronoun interpretation. We specifically look at German demonstrative pronouns (dieser) in comparison to personal pronouns (er), investigating whether dieser-demonstratives are
Petra B. Schumacher, Clare Patterson, Magdalena Repp   +2 more
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The “We” and “Me” of Identity in Hazardous Industry Organizations: Face Work Tactics Among Practicing Engineers

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In this paper, we use Goffman's notion of “face work” to examine how pipeline engineers perform and present their working selves as competent experts. Our analysis identifies various faces and face work tactics, including a focus on professional judgment, actively selling one's expertise relative to others, protective self‐deprecatory strategies, and ...
Sarah Maslen, Jan Hayes, Michael James Walsh   +2 more
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Looking for Trouble: Pre‐Intervention Monitoring in Human and AI Driver Training

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
We compare two types of situations involving monitoring of car driving: a driving instructor overseeing a trainee driver and a safety driver overseeing the performance of autonomous vehicle (AV) software. Our focus is on instances of monitoring that precede (1) interventions that are aborted before impacting the driving and (2) actual interventions on ...
Mathias Broth, Erik Vinkhuyzen, Jakob Cromdal   +2 more
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Identity Impermanence as a Generic Social Process: The Malleability of Gender in Transgender and Nonbinary People's Lives

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Drawing on 40 in‐depth interviews with transgender and nonbinary people, we found that respondents' gender identities or displays shifted day‐by‐day and audience‐by‐audience. The first describes respondents shifting their identities and displays based on feeling their way through gender while the latter describes feeling out an audience.
Stef M. Shuster, Andrew Kirks‐Cler
wiley   +1 more source

Le rôle de ce dans la résolution des problèmes d’accord verbal [PDF]

Studii de Lingvistica, 2020
This paper studies sentences, common in modern French as well as in classical French, which combine a singular subject and a plural predicate, giving rise to agreement of the verb être with the predicate.
Éric Tourrette
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