Search Results - "Discourse & Communication"

The linguistics of self-branding and micro-celebrity in Twitter: The role of hashtags by Page, Ruth

“…Twitter is a linguistic marketplace (Bourdieu, 1977) in which the processes of self-branding and micro-celebrity (Marwick, 2010) depend on visibility as a…”
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refugeesnotwelcome: Anti-refugee discourse on Twitter by Kreis, Ramona

“…In this study, I examine the online discourse of the European refugee crisis on the micro-blogging platform, Twitter. Specifically, I analyze 100 tweets that…”
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Picking the right cherries? A comparison of corpus-based and qualitative analyses of news articles about masculinity by Baker, Paul, Levon, Erez

“…As a way of comparing qualitative and quantitative approaches to critical discourse analysis (CDA), two analysts independently examined similar datasets of…”
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Ukrainian refugees in Polish press by Zawadzka-Paluektau, Natalia

“…The paper examines the representations of Ukrainian refugees in Polish press at the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion. Using corpus linguistics methods…”
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‘This uh. . . young lady young gentleman’: Gender attribution in the context of a gender-ambiguous robot by de Rijk, Lynn, Breukelman, Mieke, Dalmaijer, Evi, Stommel, Wyke

“…For humanoid robots, gender-ambiguous presentation is implemented as a potential way to avoid gender-stereotypical design. Using conversation analysis, we look…”
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‘Playing the robot’s advocate’: Bystanders’ descriptions of a robot’s conduct in public settings by Rudaz, Damien, Licoppe, Christian

“…Relying on a large corpus of natural interactions between visitors and a robot in a museum setting, we study a recurrent practice through which humans ‘worked’…”
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Interactive probes: Towards action-level evaluation for dialogue systems by Liesenfeld, Andreas, Dingemanse, Mark

“…Measures of ‘humanness’, ‘coherence’ or ‘fluency’ are the mainstay of dialogue system evaluation, but they don’t target system capabilities and rarely offer…”
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Rejecting a robot’s offer: An analysis of preference by Tisserand, Lucien, Baldauf-Quilliatre, Heike

“…Since the development of commercial robots dedicated to service or social encounters, there have been numerous appearances of such devices in public spaces or…”
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Membership categorisation, sociological description and role prompt engineering with ChatGPT by Housley, William, Dahl, Patrik

“…Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) have become the latest disruptive digital technologies to breach the dividing lines…”
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Can AI explain AI? Interactive co-construction of explanations among human and artificial agents by Klowait, Nils, Erofeeva, Maria, Lenke, Michael, Horwath, Ilona, Buschmeier, Hendrik

“…This study investigates the potential of using advanced conversational artificial intelligence (AI) to help people understand complex AI systems. In line with…”
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Performance without understanding: How ChatGPT relies on humans to repair conversational trouble by Pütz, Ole, Esposito, Elena

“…LLM-based chatbots’ ability to generate contextually appropriate and informative texts can be taken as an indication that they are also able to understand…”
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Evolving repair strategies and recipient design: Practical implications for conversational technologies by Parslow, Sophie

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Multimodal intertextuality and persuasion in advertising discourse by Xing, Chunyan, Feng, Dezheng (William)

“…This paper provides an integrated social semiotic framework for analyzing intertextuality in multimodal advertising discourse. Following the distinction…”
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How Lenny the bot convinces you that he is a person: Storytelling, affiliations, and alignments in multi-unit turns by Relieu, Marc

“…This research delves into the world of conversation analysis, focusing on the unique conversational agent, Lenny. In contrast to most modern AI-based chatbots,…”
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Institutional and news media denominations of COVID-19 and its causative virus: Between naming policies and naming politics by Prieto-Ramos, Fernando, Pei, Jiamin, Cheng, Le

“…From the beginning of the COVID-19 global pandemic, it became clear that the practices of naming the disease, its nature and its handling by the health…”
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Observing and designing signals of agency by Evanhoe, Rebecca

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Only humans can swipe by Burrell, Lorraine

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Educating Dora: Teaching a conversational agent to talk by Brandt, Adam, Hazel, Spencer, McKinnon, Rory, Sideridou, Kleopatra, Tindale, Joe, Ventoura, Nikoletta

“…Many organisations are witnessing the introduction of automated systems to mediate between them and their clients, often designed as dialogic user interfaces…”
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Is human perception of AI robots introducing a new type of bias? by Damljanovic, Danica

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Distributed agency in smart homecare interactions: A conversation analytic case study by Albert, Saul, Hall, Lauren

“…The agent of action in Human-Computer Interaction is, as the hyphenated name of the field suggests, usually conceptualized as an contrastive binary of either…”
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