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Euphemisms in advertising discourse: Putting on a positive face and maintaining speech etiquette [PDF]

Training, Language and Culture, 2019
The study describes advertising discourse as unique in terms of its manipulative potential and attempts to observe the way euphemistic units are used in English commercial and social advertising.
Elena A. Danilina, Ekaterina E. Kizyan, Daria S. Maksimova   +2 more
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Positive Face and Negative Face in Chinese and Japanese

Lecture Notes on Language and Literature
: This paper is based on the politeness theory of language application that Brown and Levinson proposed in 1987. Both China and Japan belong to the Oriental civilization, and there is a certain similarity between Chinese and Japanese.
Jingtong Kuang
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

The contact hypothesis and the virtual revolution: Does face-to-face interaction remain central to improving intergroup relations?

PLoS ONE, 2023
Research on the contact hypothesis has traditionally prioritized the role of positive, direct, face-to-face interactions in shaping intergroup prejudices, but it has recently expanded to study indirect vicarious, negative, and online contact experiences.
Julian Bond, John Dixon, Colin Tredoux, Eleni Andreouli   +3 more
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Positive sequential dependency for face attractiveness perception.

Journal of Vision, 2019
Recent findings from several groups have demonstrated that visual perception at a given moment can be biased toward what was recently seen. This is true both for basic visual attributes and for more complex representations, such as face identity, gender,
Erik Van der Burg, G. Rhodes, D. Alais
semanticscholar   +5 more sources

Positive Parenting in the Face of Early Adversity: Does it Really Matter?

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2019
Introduction: A negative relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and both physical and mental health in adulthood is well established, as is the positive impact of parenting on child development and future health.
Yui Yamaoka, David E. Bard
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Advancing face detection efficiency: Utilizing classification networks for lowering false positive incidences

Array
The advancement of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has markedly progressed in the field of face detection, significantly enhancing accuracy and recall metrics.
Jianlin Zhang, Chen Hou, Xu Yang, Xuechao Yang, Wencheng Yang, Hui Cui   +5 more
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Consistent Instance False Positive Improves Fairness in Face Recognition [PDF]

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2021
Demographic bias is a significant challenge in practical face recognition systems. Existing methods heavily rely on accurate demographic annotations. However, such annotations are usually unavailable in real scenarios.
Xingkun Xu, Yuge Huang, Pengcheng Shen, Shaoxin Li, Jilin Li, Feiyue Huang, Yong Li, Zhen Cui   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Facing our Heuristic Limits: Expanding the Terminology for Types of Positive Face

Communication Quarterly, 2018
Sally O. Hastings, Gina Castle Bell
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Online Intercultural Dialogue: “Failed” Communication in a Telecollaboration Project

Kalbotyra, 2021
Over the past two decades, the development of computer-mediated communication technologies has modified human communication. Increasingly, representatives from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds are disposed to a constant negotiation of meanings.
Dina Savlovska, Dora Loizidou, Viktorija Ivanova   +2 more
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Prosocial lie-telling in preschoolers: The impacts of ethnic background, parental factors, and perceived consequence for the partner

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
This study explored prosocial lie-telling behavior in 4- to 5-year-old children from two ethnic groups: European Canadian (n = 49; excluding Eastern European Canadian) and Chinese Canadian (n = 45).
Roksana Dobrin-De Grace, Lili Ma
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