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A Pragmatic Analysis Of Face Management In Selected English Televion Interviews

open access: yesالأستاذ, 2018
Face management is crucial during speech exchanged between the participants. When the interviewer and the interviewee start communicating and turns are transmitted between them, each tries hard to protect his/her own face from being threatened, but this
Assist. Inst. Naz Jamal Muhammad   +1 more
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Euphemisms in advertising discourse: Putting on a positive face and maintaining speech etiquette [PDF]

open access: yesTraining, 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   +2 more
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The contact hypothesis and the virtual revolution: Does face-to-face interaction remain central to improving intergroup relations?

open access: yesPLoS 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   +3 more
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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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A Comparative Analysis of Politeness in First Encounter Conversations in British English Film and Peninsular Spanish Film

open access: yesLexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2010
This paper aims at analysing the phenomenon of politeness in British English and Peninsular Spanish in the first encounter conversations between strangers taking into consideration power and distance, where relevant.
Valerija Sinkevičiūtė
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Positive sequential dependency for face attractiveness perception

open access: yesJournal 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, or expression.
Burg, E. van der, Rhodes, G., Alais, D.
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Face Threats: A Pragmatic Analysis of Questions in Bulgarian Political TV Interviews

open access: yesSlavia Meridionalis
The paper examines types of questions journalists ask politicians in broadcast interviews from the perspective of pragmatic theory, and facework in particular.
Nelly Yakimova
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Still feeling it: The time course of emotional recovery from an attentional perspective

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013
Emotional reactivity and the time taken to recover, particularly from negative, stressful, events, are inextricably linked, and both are crucial for maintaining well-being. It is unclear, however, to what extent emotional reactivity during stimulus onset
Jayne eMorriss   +3 more
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The optimal viewing position in face recognition

open access: yesJournal of Vision, 2012
In English word recognition, the best recognition performance is usually obtained when the initial fixation is directed to the left of the center (optimal viewing position, OVP). This effect has been argued to involve an interplay of left hemisphere lateralization for language processing and the perceptual experience of fixating at word beginnings most
Hsiao, JH, Liu, TT
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Riding with respect: politeness in conversation between bodaboda riders and their clients in Mbooni Sub-County, Makueni, Kenya

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
This study investigated the use of politeness strategies in the interactions between bodaboda riders and their clients in Mbooni Sub-County, Makueni, Kenya. A qualitative research approach, utilizing purposive sampling, was employed.
Faith Mbithe Kathukya   +2 more
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