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Politeness strategies in business English discourse [PDF]

open access: yesTraining, Language and Culture, 2019
Conversational strategies are an important element of any modern English language syllabus. Much attention is paid to teaching these strategies in Business English classrooms.
Elena B. Kuzhevskaya
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Negative Space: Workspace Awareness in 3D Face-to-Face Remote Collaboration [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 17th International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry, 2019
Face-to-face telepresence promotes the sense of "being there" and can improve collaboration by allowing immediate understanding of remote people's nonverbal cues. Several approaches successfully explored interactions with 2D content using a see-through whiteboard metaphor.
Maurício Sousa   +4 more
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Trait anger and negative interpretation bias in neutral face perception

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionAnger is a basic emotion helping people to achieve goals by preparing the body for action and prompting others to change their behavior but is also associated with health issues and risks.
Pauline Rohrbeck   +2 more
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Prefrontal engagement by cognitive reappraisal of negative faces [PDF]

open access: yesBehavioural Brain Research, 2015
Cognitive reappraisal has been associated with increased activation in prefrontal cortex (PFC) and cingulate regions implicated in cognitive control and affect regulation. To date, neuroimaging studies of reappraisal have primarily used emotionally evocative scenes, and it remains unclear whether the same cognitive strategy applied to emotional facial ...
Brady D, Nelson   +4 more
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The polarity asymmetry of negative strengthening: dissociating adjectival polarity from facethreatening potential

open access: yesGlossa, 2021
The interpretation of negated antonyms is characterised by a polarity asymmetry: the negation of a positive polarity antonym (X is not interesting) is more likely to be strengthened to convey its opposite (‘X is uninteresting’) than the negation of a ...
Diana Mazzarella, Nicole Gotzner
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Kajian Kesantunan dalam E-Mail Permohonan yang Ditulis oleh Penutur Jepang dan Pembelajar Indonesia

open access: yesLingua Cultura, 2014
Nowadays electronic mail (e-mail) is a communication tool that is often used in everyday life. One of the utilizations of e-mail is used in practical purposes such as making a request. This paper provided views on linguistic politeness in submitting an e-
Hani Wahyuningtias
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Remote W.A.R.A. Compared With Face-to-Face W.A.R.A.: A Pilot Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
BackgroundSince the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and its social restriction measures, online therapy is a life-saving possibility for patients with acute stress.
Paula Weerkamp-Bartholomeus   +3 more
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KAJIAN PRAGMATIK KESANTUAN BERBAHASA ARAB PADA NOVEL KAUKAB AMUN KARYA SALLY MAGDI

open access: yesArabi: Journal of Arabic Studies, 2017
This article discusses the politeness in Arabic speech especially on the politeness strategies used by the characters in the novel Kaukab Amūn. By utilizing Brown and Levinson's view of politeness, it is concluded that in order for communication to be ...
Siti Aminah
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Evidence for Holistic Processing of Faces Viewed as Photographic Negatives [PDF]

open access: yesPerception, 1999
Inversion and photographic negation both impair face recognition. Inversion seems to disrupt processing of the spatial relationship between facial features (‘relational’ processing) which normally occurs with upright faces and which facilitates their recognition. It remains unclear why negation affects recognition.
Hole, Graham J   +2 more
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Attention bias to negative versus non-negative faces is related to negative affectivity in a transdiagnostic youth sample

open access: yesJournal of Psychiatric Research, 2021
This study identified a shared pathophysiological mechanism of pediatric anxiety and irritability. Clinically, anxiety and irritability are common, co-occurring problems, both characterized by high-arousal negative affective states. Behaviorally, anxiety and irritability are associated with aberrant threat processing.
Anita Harrewijn   +10 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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