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Three-Way Decisions with Evaluative Linguistic Expressions
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2023 We propose a linguistic interpretation of three-way decisions, where the regions of acceptance, rejection, and non-commitment are constructed by using the so-called evaluative linguistic expressions, which are expressions of natural language such as small, medium, very short, quite roughly strong, extremely good, etc.
Boffa, S, Ciucci, D
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Stance-taking in Spanish-speaking Preschoolers' Argumentative Interaction [PDF]
, 2019 The aim of this study is to determine what linguistic resources are used for stance-taking in confrontational interactions. For this purpose, we analyze 70 argumentative sequences in spontaneous peer conversations during play situations of 4 dyads (2 mid
Migdalek, Maia Julieta +2 more
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Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2023 Formulaic language, characterized by phraseological patterns such as lexical bundles, has been observed to significantly influence the discourse of speakers and writers. These patterns tend to differ across genres and disciplines.
Hadi Kashiha
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The effect of cultural background on metaphor interpretation [PDF]
, 2003 This article describes a study that investigated the ways in which Bangladeshi students interpreted metaphors used by their lecturers during a short course at a British university.
Bertocci +4 more
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The communicative effectiveness of different types of communication strategy [PDF]
, 2003 This study examines compensation strategies (techniques for dealing with knowledge gaps between learner and interlocutor), relates them to synoptic and ectenic learning (Ehrman and Leaver, 2002, 2003), and suggests reasons for the fact that ectenic ...
Bachman +19 more
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Shapelessness in context [PDF]
, 2012 Many philosophers believe that the extensions of evaluative terms and concepts aren't unified under non-evaluative similarity relations and that this "shapelessness thesis" (ST) has significant metaethical implications regarding non-cognitivism, ethical ...
Vayrynen, PP
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On the Possibility of Democracy and Rational Collective Choice [PDF]
, 2004 The paper challenges the 'orthodox doctrine' of collective choice theory according to which Arrow’s 'general possibility theorem' precludes rational decision procedures generally and implies that in particular all voting procedures must be flawed.
Hillinger, Claude
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How Do Induced Affective States Bias Emotional Contagion to Faces? A Three-Dimensional Model
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Affective states can propagate in a group of people and influence their ability to judge others’ affective states. In the present paper, we present a simple mathematical model to describe this process in a three-dimensional affective space.
Andrés Pinilla +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 The Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces (KDEF) is one of the most widely used human facial expressions database. Almost a decade after the original validation study (Goeleven et al., 2008), we present subjective rating norms for a sub-set of 210 pictures
Margarida V. Garrido, Marília Prada
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Affective priming using facial expressions modulates liking for abstract art. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 We examined the influence of affective priming on the appreciation of abstract artworks using an evaluative priming task. Facial primes (showing happiness, disgust or no emotion) were presented under brief (Stimulus Onset Asynchrony, SOA = 20 ms) and ...
Albert Flexas +5 more
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