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Positive Classification Advantage of Categorizing Emotional Faces in Patients With Major Depressive Disorder

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
This study investigated whether patients with MDD (major depressive disorder) have deficits in emotional face classification as well as the perceptual mechanism.
Lun Zhao, Xiaoyu Wang, Gang Sun
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KAJIAN PRAGMATIK KESANTUAN BERBAHASA ARAB PADA NOVEL KAUKAB AMUN KARYA SALLY MAGDI

Arabi: 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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A Pragmatic Analysis Of Face Management In Selected English Televion Interviews

الأستاذ, 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, Dr. Rauf Kareem Mahmood   +1 more
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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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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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The optimal viewing position in face recognition

Journal 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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Face Threats: A Pragmatic Analysis of Questions in Bulgarian Political TV Interviews

Slavia 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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A Comparative Analysis of Politeness in First Encounter Conversations in British English Film and Peninsular Spanish Film

Lexis: 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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The Weak Stability of the Positive Face in L 1 [PDF]

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1995
Let F be the positive face of the unit ball of L 1
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Riding with respect: politeness in conversation between bodaboda riders and their clients in Mbooni Sub-County, Makueni, Kenya

Cogent 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, John Khaisie Wanyama, Timothy Kinoti M’Ngaruthi   +2 more
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