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Toward a Performative Understanding of Politeness

International Journal of Communication, 2019
In this article, we argue that critical communication scholars have largely overlooked the study of politeness as a constitutive component of identity, culture, and power.
C. Kyle Rudick, Danielle Dick McGeough
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An Exploratory Study of Genuine Criticism Realization and Mitigation Strategies a Case of Movie Interactants [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2016
Genuine Criticism (GC) is an evaluative expression of annoyance with an attribute in the interlocutor, whose realization may threaten the positive image of both interlocutors.
Saman Ebadi, Farkhondeh Pursiah
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The Style Game: Control, Cues, and Anchors in Real Time Speech Accommodation

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 210-222, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Theories of speech accommodation and audience design have tended to focus on social identity functions of convergence and divergence in interaction. In this article, I focus on additional interactional phenomena that are under‐studied but systematic.
Devyani Sharma
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YouTubing Remittances, Revealing (Dis)connectedness: Copresence as Fiction, Ideal and Heuristic on the YouTube Channel of Western Union

Global Networks, Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2025.
ABSTRACT Sending and receiving remittances is central to the negotiation of transnational family life, and to nourishing a sense of copresence among physically distant parties. Although the lived experience of this transaction has a very intimate and personal basis, it is also subject to increasing visual and public representation, as a part of the ...
Paolo Boccagni, Valentina Marconi, Alberto Brodesco   +2 more
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When data sharing is an answer and when (often) it is not: Acknowledging data‐driven, non‐data, and data‐decentered cultures

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 75, Issue 13, Page 1515-1530, 15 December 2024.
Abstract Contemporary research and innovation policies and advocates of data‐intensive research paradigms continue to urge increased sharing of research data. Such paradigms are underpinned by a pro‐data, normative data culture that has become dominant in the contemporary discourse.
Isto Huvila, Luanne S. Sinnamon
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Conversational Alignment With Artificial Intelligence in Context

Philosophical Perspectives, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 89-102, December 2024.
ABSTRACT The development of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agents based on large language models raises important questions about the relationship between human norms, values, and practices and AI design and performance. This article explores what it means for AI agents to be conversationally aligned to human communicative ...
Rachel Katharine Sterken, James Ravi Kirkpatrick   +1 more
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Hedging and Boosting Criticism in Dissertation Thesis Reviews

ELOPE
Dissertation thesis reviews within the Czech academic context are, unlike journal article peer reviews, non-blind, non-anonymous, publicly available texts. The key feature of these reviews is evaluation, and they require a substantial amount of facework
Magda Sučková, Petra Zmrzlá
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Navigating socio‐emotional risk through comfort‐building in physics teacher professional development: A case study

Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 61, Issue 9, Page 2223-2257, November 2024.
Abstract In teacher professional development (PD), grouping teachers with varying levels of experience can be a productive and empowering way to stimulate the exchange and co‐generation of content and pedagogical knowledge. However, less experienced teachers can face socio‐emotional risks when engaging in collaborative science content reasoning tasks ...
Maggie S. Mahmood, Hamideh Talafian, Devyn Shafer, Eric Kuo, Morten Lundsgaard, Tim Stelzer   +5 more
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Risk perception and interpersonal discussion on risk: A systematic literature review

Risk Analysis, Volume 44, Issue 7, Page 1666-1680, July 2024.
Abstract Risk perception research has long been attentive to the fact that risk is a social construction. Nevertheless, this fact has not been integrated into empirical research in any systematic manner. Empirical studies that do focus on the social construction of risk often do so from very different positions and with different objectives in mind ...
Sara Perlstein
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Apprendre dans des interactions avec de multiples participants : la formation pratique des éducatrices et éducateurs de l’enfance

Activités, 2020
In Education and Care professions, vocational training frequently occurs in interactions involving multiple participants. Novice workers therefore have to learn to participate in ongoing activities by engaging in work teams and by adjusting to the ...
Marianne Zogmal
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