Search for dissertations about: "Politeness"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the word Politeness.
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1. Embodying Politeness in Persuasive Humanoid Agents for Small Group Scenarios
Abstract : In both physical and virtual environments, small group interactions significantly shape our social experiences. Understanding and replicating situated group interactions with virtual agents or physical robots pose possibilities and challenges. READ MORE
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2. Face in cyberspace : Facework, (im)politeness and conflict in English discussion groups
Abstract : The purpose of the current study is to explore the discourse strategies and linguistic resources employed by the participants in English electronic discussion fora when handling ‘face’ (public self-image) and conflict online.Two data sets were collected from the moderated Musiclassical mailing list and from the non-moderated alt. READ MORE
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3. Apologising in British English
Abstract : The thesis explores the form, function and sociolinguistic distribution of explicit apologies in the spoken part of the British National Corpus. The sub-corpus used for the study comprises a spoken text mass of about five million words and represents dialogue produced by more than 1700 speakers, acting in a number of different conversational settings. READ MORE
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4. A Linguistic Analysis of Peer-review Critique in Four Modes of Computer-mediated Communication
Abstract : Abstract The present work is a quantitative and qualitative analysis of pragmatic strategies for delivering critique, and types of politeness, used by undergraduate L2 students of English at different stages of peer-review discussion. The material examined consists of four corpora of authentic conversations between students, the main purpose of which was to give feedback on each other’s contributions during an English A-level course, at Mid-Sweden University. READ MORE
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5. Language and interaction in online asynchronous communication in university level English courses
Abstract : Interaction involves people communicating and reacting to each other. This process is key to the study of discourse, but it is not easy to study systematically how interaction takes place in a specific communicative event, or how it is typically performed over a series of repeated communicative events. READ MORE