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Speech genre “zamechanie” on the scale of “politeness – anti-politeness” [PDF]

open access: yesЖанры речи
The article analyzes major linguistic and pragmatic properties of utterances that native Russian speakers classify as ‘zamechanie’ (roughly, critical remark).
Shilikhina, Ksenia Mikhailovna
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Modeling Blame to Avoid Positive Face Threats in Natural Language Generation

open access: yesInternational Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2014
Prior approaches to politeness modulation in natural language generation (NLG) often focus on manipulating factors such as the directness of requests that pertain to preserving the autonomy of the addressee (negative face threats), but do not have a ...
Gordon Briggs, Matthias Scheutz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

S^3FD: Single Shot Scale-Invariant Face Detector [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2017
This paper presents a real-time face detector, named Single Shot Scale-invariant Face Detector (S3FD), which performs superiorly on various scales of faces with a single deep neural network, especially for small faces.
Shifeng Zhang   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
openaire   +4 more sources

Face-To-Face, Online and Hybrid Education: University Students’ Opinions and Preferences

open access: yesJournal of Digital Educational Technology, 2022
Although there is a growing number of studies with regard to the forced transition to online education during the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer studies regard students ’ perceptions on different modes of education or a comparison among these.
K. Nikolopoulou
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Family Nurture Intervention for Preterm Infants Facilitates Positive Mother-Infant Face-to-Face Engagement at Four Months

open access: yesDevelopmental Psychology, 2018
Although preterm infants are at risk for social deficits, interventions to improve mother–infant interaction in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are not part of standard care (SC).
B. Beebe   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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