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The Physical, Emotional, and Autonomous Anthropomorphism of Service Chatbots

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior research on chatbot anthropomorphism has often treated it as a unidimensional construct, producing inconsistent findings regarding how human‐like design cues shape user responses. This study conceptualizes anthropomorphism as a multidimensional higher‐order perception comprising three distinct forms of anthropomorphic attribution ...
Yangjuan Hu, Fulya Acikgoz, Shubin Yu
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On personal pronouns in Croatian GFL learners’ argumentative texts

Strani Jezici
Metadiscourse markers are important features facilitating communication by transferring the message that is intended to be mediated by the writer. Personal pronouns can be defined as interpersonal discourse markers often used by foreign language (FL ...
Ivana Šarić Šokčević
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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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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
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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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Accessibility and Referential Choice: Personal Pronouns and D-pronouns in Written German

Discours, 2016
We present a corpus study and a production experiment that investigated the choice between two types of pronouns in written German – personal pronouns and so-called d-pronouns, which have properties of both personal and demonstrative pronouns.
Yvonne Portele, Markus Bader
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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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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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PRONOMS PERSONNELS COMPLÉMENTS DISJOINTS ET PRONOMS ADVERBIAUX EN ET Y : FONCTIONNEMENT SÉMANTIQUE ET MODE DE DONATION DU RÉFÉRENT

Francisola: Revue Indonésienne de la Langue et la Littérature Françaises, 2017
RÉSUMÉ. Notre objectif consistera à étudier, d’un point de vue contrastif, le fonctionnement référentiel des pronoms adverbiaux en et y et des pronoms personnels compléments disjoints en français classique et en français moderne.
Achraf BEN ARBIA
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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