Although generative conversational artificial intelligence(AI)can answer questions well and hold conversations as a person,the semantic ambiguity inherent in text-based communication poses challenges to effective use....Although generative conversational artificial intelligence(AI)can answer questions well and hold conversations as a person,the semantic ambiguity inherent in text-based communication poses challenges to effective use.Effective use reflects the users’utilization of generative conversational AI to achieve their goals,which has not been previously studied.Drawing on the media naturalness theory,we examined how generative conversational AI’s content and style naturalness affect effective use.A two-wave survey was conducted to collect data from 565 users of generative conversational AI.Two techniques were used in this study.Initially,partial least squares structural equation modeling(PLS-SEM)was applied to determine the variables that significantly affected the mechanisms(i.e.,cognitive effort and communication ambiguity)and effective use.Secondly,an artificial neural network model was used to evaluate the relative importance of the significant predictors of mechanisms and effective use identified from the PLS-SEM analysis.The results revealed that the naturalness of content and style differed in their effects on cognitive effort and communication ambiguity.Additionally,cognitive effort and communication ambiguity negatively affected effective use.This study advances the literature on effective use by uncovering the psychological mechanisms underlying effective use and their antecedents.In addition,this study offers insights into the design of generative conversational AI.展开更多
In the context of globalization and digitalization,English has emerged as the primary language for international communication,making fluent conversational English skills essential for personal and professional growth...In the context of globalization and digitalization,English has emerged as the primary language for international communication,making fluent conversational English skills essential for personal and professional growth.The advent of We-Media,encompassing various online platforms,such as social media,blogs,and video content,has revolutionized the way English learners acquire and practice conversational skills.This paper explores the effective utilization of We-Media to enhance English conversational abilities,proposing practical strategies for both learners and educators.By integrating theories,such as second language acquisition,communicative language teaching,and media richness theory,the study highlights the strengths and challenges of We-Media in English learning.Through case studies and empirical analysis,the paper demonstrates the positive impact of We-Media on learners’speaking skills,emphasizing the importance of self-management,goal-setting,and consistent practice.The findings suggest that We-Media offers a flexible and diverse learning environment,but its effectiveness depends on learners’ability to self-regulate and employ effective learning strategies.The paper concludes with recommendations for future research and practical suggestions for educators and learners to maximize the benefits of We-Media in English education.展开更多
Implicature is a universal feature of human communication.In conversations,it is common to see examples of something unsaid but communicated.After introducing the theory of conversational impilcature and its four maxi...Implicature is a universal feature of human communication.In conversations,it is common to see examples of something unsaid but communicated.After introducing the theory of conversational impilcature and its four maxims,this paper presents English and Chinese examples to compare their conversational implicature,and finds conversational implicature exists in both Chinese and English conversation.展开更多
Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen's masterpieces. There are a lot of lively vivid dialogues in the novel. Conversational implicature is analyzed from the perspective of progmatics in Mansfield Park will be prov...Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen's masterpieces. There are a lot of lively vivid dialogues in the novel. Conversational implicature is analyzed from the perspective of progmatics in Mansfield Park will be provided in this article.展开更多
What are the articulative semiotic characteristics of the Instagram interface, and how do they contribute to the construction of documentary, conversational photographic discourses with social purposes？ This is a sem...What are the articulative semiotic characteristics of the Instagram interface, and how do they contribute to the construction of documentary, conversational photographic discourses with social purposes？ This is a semiotic analysis of the Instagram interface as an interactive and conversational platform in creating new photographic documentary strategies for social purposes, to which we have applied the model of textual conversation as outlined by Bettetini （1984） and the concept of multidimensional interactivity proposed by Sally McMillan （2006）. We shall analyse the work of Pachi Tamer （@cachafaz） in Instagram,and in particular the ＂Jim-Oktoberfest＂ case, the One-Dollar-Dreams site and the same author＇s ＂Sebasti^in＂ case from a semiotic perspective.展开更多
Conversational Implicature Theory is one important theory of pragmatics. It focuses on the implied meaning of the speakers and plays an important role in speech communication.
Cultural values determine and influence the communicative competence in a substantial way.Conversational styles are also demonstrated by cultural values which are obvious to be discovered in any cultures.The paper is ...Cultural values determine and influence the communicative competence in a substantial way.Conversational styles are also demonstrated by cultural values which are obvious to be discovered in any cultures.The paper is aimed at making a brief analysis of differences between Chinese and English from the perspective of the intercultural communication for the promotion of language abilities for learners during the cultural exchanges.展开更多
Translation has always been acknowledged as one main branch of linguistics.Catford holds that translation is a specific linguistic theory.It’s necessary and important to study the relationship between translation and...Translation has always been acknowledged as one main branch of linguistics.Catford holds that translation is a specific linguistic theory.It’s necessary and important to study the relationship between translation and linguistic.Many scholars have proposed many opinions on the impacts of conversational implicature.From the academic perspective and on the basis of Grice,H.P’s conversational implicature theory,this article makes a careful analysis of conversational implicature and translation by giving exact definition and discussing the features of them.This article talks about the relationship between conversational implicature and translation by giving definitions and setting examples,hoping to help translation in further and make a great contribution to the development of translation.展开更多
We propose a Rate-Distortion (RD) optimized strategy for frame-dropping and scheduling of multi-user conversa- tional and streaming videos. We consider a scenario where conversational and streaming videos share the fo...We propose a Rate-Distortion (RD) optimized strategy for frame-dropping and scheduling of multi-user conversa- tional and streaming videos. We consider a scenario where conversational and streaming videos share the forwarding resources at a network node. Two buffers are setup on the node to temporarily store the packets for these two types of video applications. For streaming video, a big buffer is used as the associated delay constraint of the application is moderate and a very small buffer is used for conversational video to ensure that the forwarding delay of every packet is limited. A scheduler is located behind these two buffers that dynamically assigns transmission slots on the outgoing link to the two buffers. Rate-distortion side information is used to perform RD-optimized frame dropping in case of node overload. Sharing the data rate on the outgoing link between the con- versational and the streaming videos is done either based on the fullness of the two associated buffers or on the mean incoming rates of the respective videos. Simulation results showed that our proposed RD-optimized frame dropping and scheduling ap- proach provides significant improvements in performance over the popular priority-based random dropping (PRD) technique.展开更多
Understanding an utterance is far from proposition analysis and literal meaning interpretation. It is the unity of what is said and what is implicated. Grice＇s theory of conversational implicature provides some expli...Understanding an utterance is far from proposition analysis and literal meaning interpretation. It is the unity of what is said and what is implicated. Grice＇s theory of conversational implicature provides some explicit account of how it is possible to mean more than what is literally expressed by the conventional sense of the linguistic expressions uttered. Using this theory, we can infer the speaker＇s real attention, appreciate figure of speech in literary work, and improve our communicative competence.展开更多
Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen’s debut which uses Elinor’s and Marianne’s marriage life as the main line, describing exquisitely and vividly the protagonists’ love and marriage. Since the dialogue is one of ...Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen’s debut which uses Elinor’s and Marianne’s marriage life as the main line, describing exquisitely and vividly the protagonists’ love and marriage. Since the dialogue is one of the basic ways to shape characters in literary works, the analysis of dialogues, especially that of those contradictory dialogues helps better analyze the novel itself. This paper analyzes different conversational implicatures in the typical dialogues in Sense and Sensibility, in order to help us to understand character differences, and to further understand the novel’ s theme. Through the analysis, this paper finds that there exist many indirect expressions in the dialogues in Sense and Sensibility, which reflect that characters violate the four maxims of Cooperative Principle in order to implicitly express their true thoughts and avoid such unpleasant communicational effects as embarrassment and conflict.展开更多
Conversational implicature is a feature of language in use. This paper is trying to explore the conversational implicature phenomenon in business negotiation. From pragmatics view, it analyses the potential meaning of...Conversational implicature is a feature of language in use. This paper is trying to explore the conversational implicature phenomenon in business negotiation. From pragmatics view, it analyses the potential meaning of break off the Negotiation and carry on the negotiation in business negotiation. Through carefully selected examples, it manages to show how to behave politely in business negotiation. It's hoped that this paper can help those who are in such field to achieve successful negotiation.展开更多
According to theory,working memory capacity should be related to comprehension ability,in this thesis,it tries to jus tify the relationship between working memory capacity and comprehension of conversational implicatu...According to theory,working memory capacity should be related to comprehension ability,in this thesis,it tries to jus tify the relationship between working memory capacity and comprehension of conversational implicatures.Through theoretical hypothesizing and empirical demonstration,the relationship between working memory and the comprehension of conversational implicatures,especially role that the phonological loop plays in the comprehension of conversational implicatures caused by literal violation to the maxim of manner,is justified in the thesis.展开更多
The doctor-patient conversation is the major way of communication between doctors and patients.A good conversation helps to construct a harmonious doctor-patient relationship.This paper attempts to analyze the doctor-...The doctor-patient conversation is the major way of communication between doctors and patients.A good conversation helps to construct a harmonious doctor-patient relationship.This paper attempts to analyze the doctor-patient conversation by applying the Theory of Conversational Implicature.The theory is accepted as the cooperative principle consisting of four maxims:quantity,quality,relation,manner.This paper will analyse how the four maxims work and the violating of the maxims in the doctor-patient conversation.Through linguistic study of the conversation,we try to find out the problems in the doctor-patient conversation and to provide some directive linguistic suggestions to doctors and patients.展开更多
Early Autumn written by Langston Hughes is a short story about ex-lovers Mary and Bill who come across on Wash ington Square in a dusk of early autumn.The story is composed mainly by short conversation and scenery dep...Early Autumn written by Langston Hughes is a short story about ex-lovers Mary and Bill who come across on Wash ington Square in a dusk of early autumn.The story is composed mainly by short conversation and scenery depiction.This paper investigates the characteristics of Mary and Bill through conversation analysis based on Cooperative Principle and Face Theory.展开更多
Irony is a frequently occuring indirect act in daily interpersonal interaction.A number of novel ironic cases via deliberately flouting the four maxims of the Cooperative Principle are explained from the perspective o...Irony is a frequently occuring indirect act in daily interpersonal interaction.A number of novel ironic cases via deliberately flouting the four maxims of the Cooperative Principle are explained from the perspective of conversational implicature.This paper tend to explore the production of irony according to Grice’s Cooperative Principle and conversational implicature theory with some daily examples and the author hope that this paper is of certain help to further research concerning irony in the realm of pragmatics.展开更多
Most of the questions from users lack the context needed to thoroughly understand the problemat hand,thus making the questions impossible to answer.Semantic Similarity Estimation is based on relating user’s questions...Most of the questions from users lack the context needed to thoroughly understand the problemat hand,thus making the questions impossible to answer.Semantic Similarity Estimation is based on relating user’s questions to the context from previous Conversational Search Systems(CSS)to provide answers without requesting the user’s context.It imposes constraints on the time needed to produce an answer for the user.The proposed model enables the use of contextual data associated with previous Conversational Searches(CS).While receiving a question in a new conversational search,the model determines the question that refers tomore pastCS.Themodel then infers past contextual data related to the given question and predicts an answer based on the context inferred without engaging in multi-turn interactions or requesting additional data from the user for context.This model shows the ability to use the limited information in user queries for best context inferences based on Closed-Domain-based CS and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers for textual representations.展开更多
In the current era of the internet,people use online media for conversation,discussion,chatting,and other similar purposes.Analysis of such material where more than one person is involved has a spate challenge as comp...In the current era of the internet,people use online media for conversation,discussion,chatting,and other similar purposes.Analysis of such material where more than one person is involved has a spate challenge as compared to other text analysis tasks.There are several approaches to identify users’emotions fromthe conversational text for the English language,however regional or low resource languages have been neglected.The Urdu language is one of them and despite being used by millions of users across the globe,with the best of our knowledge there exists no work on dialogue analysis in the Urdu language.Therefore,in this paper,we have proposed a model which utilizes deep learning and machine learning approaches for the classification of users’emotions from the text.To accomplish this task,we have first created a dataset for the Urdu language with the help of existing English language datasets for dialogue analysis.After that,we have preprocessed the data and selected dialogues with common emotions.Once the dataset is prepared,we have used different deep learning and machine learning techniques for the classification of emotion.We have tuned the algorithms according to the Urdu language datasets.The experimental evaluation has shown encouraging results with 67%accuracy for the Urdu dialogue datasets,more than 10,000 dialogues are classified into five emotions i.e.,joy,fear,anger,sadness,and neutral.We believe that this is the first effort for emotion detection from the conversational text in the Urdu language domain.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Grant No.72171095)the National Social Science Foundation of China(Grant No.22VRC153)the Wuhan Textile University Fund(Grant Nos.2024289 and 2024380)。
文摘Although generative conversational artificial intelligence(AI)can answer questions well and hold conversations as a person,the semantic ambiguity inherent in text-based communication poses challenges to effective use.Effective use reflects the users’utilization of generative conversational AI to achieve their goals,which has not been previously studied.Drawing on the media naturalness theory,we examined how generative conversational AI’s content and style naturalness affect effective use.A two-wave survey was conducted to collect data from 565 users of generative conversational AI.Two techniques were used in this study.Initially,partial least squares structural equation modeling(PLS-SEM)was applied to determine the variables that significantly affected the mechanisms(i.e.,cognitive effort and communication ambiguity)and effective use.Secondly,an artificial neural network model was used to evaluate the relative importance of the significant predictors of mechanisms and effective use identified from the PLS-SEM analysis.The results revealed that the naturalness of content and style differed in their effects on cognitive effort and communication ambiguity.Additionally,cognitive effort and communication ambiguity negatively affected effective use.This study advances the literature on effective use by uncovering the psychological mechanisms underlying effective use and their antecedents.In addition,this study offers insights into the design of generative conversational AI.
文摘In the context of globalization and digitalization,English has emerged as the primary language for international communication,making fluent conversational English skills essential for personal and professional growth.The advent of We-Media,encompassing various online platforms,such as social media,blogs,and video content,has revolutionized the way English learners acquire and practice conversational skills.This paper explores the effective utilization of We-Media to enhance English conversational abilities,proposing practical strategies for both learners and educators.By integrating theories,such as second language acquisition,communicative language teaching,and media richness theory,the study highlights the strengths and challenges of We-Media in English learning.Through case studies and empirical analysis,the paper demonstrates the positive impact of We-Media on learners’speaking skills,emphasizing the importance of self-management,goal-setting,and consistent practice.The findings suggest that We-Media offers a flexible and diverse learning environment,but its effectiveness depends on learners’ability to self-regulate and employ effective learning strategies.The paper concludes with recommendations for future research and practical suggestions for educators and learners to maximize the benefits of We-Media in English education.
文摘Implicature is a universal feature of human communication.In conversations,it is common to see examples of something unsaid but communicated.After introducing the theory of conversational impilcature and its four maxims,this paper presents English and Chinese examples to compare their conversational implicature,and finds conversational implicature exists in both Chinese and English conversation.
文摘Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen's masterpieces. There are a lot of lively vivid dialogues in the novel. Conversational implicature is analyzed from the perspective of progmatics in Mansfield Park will be provided in this article.
文摘What are the articulative semiotic characteristics of the Instagram interface, and how do they contribute to the construction of documentary, conversational photographic discourses with social purposes？ This is a semiotic analysis of the Instagram interface as an interactive and conversational platform in creating new photographic documentary strategies for social purposes, to which we have applied the model of textual conversation as outlined by Bettetini （1984） and the concept of multidimensional interactivity proposed by Sally McMillan （2006）. We shall analyse the work of Pachi Tamer （@cachafaz） in Instagram,and in particular the ＂Jim-Oktoberfest＂ case, the One-Dollar-Dreams site and the same author＇s ＂Sebasti^in＂ case from a semiotic perspective.
文摘Conversational Implicature Theory is one important theory of pragmatics. It focuses on the implied meaning of the speakers and plays an important role in speech communication.
文摘Cultural values determine and influence the communicative competence in a substantial way.Conversational styles are also demonstrated by cultural values which are obvious to be discovered in any cultures.The paper is aimed at making a brief analysis of differences between Chinese and English from the perspective of the intercultural communication for the promotion of language abilities for learners during the cultural exchanges.
文摘Translation has always been acknowledged as one main branch of linguistics.Catford holds that translation is a specific linguistic theory.It’s necessary and important to study the relationship between translation and linguistic.Many scholars have proposed many opinions on the impacts of conversational implicature.From the academic perspective and on the basis of Grice,H.P’s conversational implicature theory,this article makes a careful analysis of conversational implicature and translation by giving exact definition and discussing the features of them.This article talks about the relationship between conversational implicature and translation by giving definitions and setting examples,hoping to help translation in further and make a great contribution to the development of translation.
基金Project (No. STE1093/1-1) supported by the German ResearchFoundation, Germany
文摘We propose a Rate-Distortion (RD) optimized strategy for frame-dropping and scheduling of multi-user conversa- tional and streaming videos. We consider a scenario where conversational and streaming videos share the forwarding resources at a network node. Two buffers are setup on the node to temporarily store the packets for these two types of video applications. For streaming video, a big buffer is used as the associated delay constraint of the application is moderate and a very small buffer is used for conversational video to ensure that the forwarding delay of every packet is limited. A scheduler is located behind these two buffers that dynamically assigns transmission slots on the outgoing link to the two buffers. Rate-distortion side information is used to perform RD-optimized frame dropping in case of node overload. Sharing the data rate on the outgoing link between the con- versational and the streaming videos is done either based on the fullness of the two associated buffers or on the mean incoming rates of the respective videos. Simulation results showed that our proposed RD-optimized frame dropping and scheduling ap- proach provides significant improvements in performance over the popular priority-based random dropping (PRD) technique.
文摘Understanding an utterance is far from proposition analysis and literal meaning interpretation. It is the unity of what is said and what is implicated. Grice＇s theory of conversational implicature provides some explicit account of how it is possible to mean more than what is literally expressed by the conventional sense of the linguistic expressions uttered. Using this theory, we can infer the speaker＇s real attention, appreciate figure of speech in literary work, and improve our communicative competence.
文摘Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen’s debut which uses Elinor’s and Marianne’s marriage life as the main line, describing exquisitely and vividly the protagonists’ love and marriage. Since the dialogue is one of the basic ways to shape characters in literary works, the analysis of dialogues, especially that of those contradictory dialogues helps better analyze the novel itself. This paper analyzes different conversational implicatures in the typical dialogues in Sense and Sensibility, in order to help us to understand character differences, and to further understand the novel’ s theme. Through the analysis, this paper finds that there exist many indirect expressions in the dialogues in Sense and Sensibility, which reflect that characters violate the four maxims of Cooperative Principle in order to implicitly express their true thoughts and avoid such unpleasant communicational effects as embarrassment and conflict.
文摘Conversational implicature is a feature of language in use. This paper is trying to explore the conversational implicature phenomenon in business negotiation. From pragmatics view, it analyses the potential meaning of break off the Negotiation and carry on the negotiation in business negotiation. Through carefully selected examples, it manages to show how to behave politely in business negotiation. It's hoped that this paper can help those who are in such field to achieve successful negotiation.
文摘According to theory,working memory capacity should be related to comprehension ability,in this thesis,it tries to jus tify the relationship between working memory capacity and comprehension of conversational implicatures.Through theoretical hypothesizing and empirical demonstration,the relationship between working memory and the comprehension of conversational implicatures,especially role that the phonological loop plays in the comprehension of conversational implicatures caused by literal violation to the maxim of manner,is justified in the thesis.
文摘The doctor-patient conversation is the major way of communication between doctors and patients.A good conversation helps to construct a harmonious doctor-patient relationship.This paper attempts to analyze the doctor-patient conversation by applying the Theory of Conversational Implicature.The theory is accepted as the cooperative principle consisting of four maxims:quantity,quality,relation,manner.This paper will analyse how the four maxims work and the violating of the maxims in the doctor-patient conversation.Through linguistic study of the conversation,we try to find out the problems in the doctor-patient conversation and to provide some directive linguistic suggestions to doctors and patients.
文摘Early Autumn written by Langston Hughes is a short story about ex-lovers Mary and Bill who come across on Wash ington Square in a dusk of early autumn.The story is composed mainly by short conversation and scenery depiction.This paper investigates the characteristics of Mary and Bill through conversation analysis based on Cooperative Principle and Face Theory.
文摘Irony is a frequently occuring indirect act in daily interpersonal interaction.A number of novel ironic cases via deliberately flouting the four maxims of the Cooperative Principle are explained from the perspective of conversational implicature.This paper tend to explore the production of irony according to Grice’s Cooperative Principle and conversational implicature theory with some daily examples and the author hope that this paper is of certain help to further research concerning irony in the realm of pragmatics.
文摘Most of the questions from users lack the context needed to thoroughly understand the problemat hand,thus making the questions impossible to answer.Semantic Similarity Estimation is based on relating user’s questions to the context from previous Conversational Search Systems(CSS)to provide answers without requesting the user’s context.It imposes constraints on the time needed to produce an answer for the user.The proposed model enables the use of contextual data associated with previous Conversational Searches(CS).While receiving a question in a new conversational search,the model determines the question that refers tomore pastCS.Themodel then infers past contextual data related to the given question and predicts an answer based on the context inferred without engaging in multi-turn interactions or requesting additional data from the user for context.This model shows the ability to use the limited information in user queries for best context inferences based on Closed-Domain-based CS and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers for textual representations.
文摘In the current era of the internet,people use online media for conversation,discussion,chatting,and other similar purposes.Analysis of such material where more than one person is involved has a spate challenge as compared to other text analysis tasks.There are several approaches to identify users’emotions fromthe conversational text for the English language,however regional or low resource languages have been neglected.The Urdu language is one of them and despite being used by millions of users across the globe,with the best of our knowledge there exists no work on dialogue analysis in the Urdu language.Therefore,in this paper,we have proposed a model which utilizes deep learning and machine learning approaches for the classification of users’emotions from the text.To accomplish this task,we have first created a dataset for the Urdu language with the help of existing English language datasets for dialogue analysis.After that,we have preprocessed the data and selected dialogues with common emotions.Once the dataset is prepared,we have used different deep learning and machine learning techniques for the classification of emotion.We have tuned the algorithms according to the Urdu language datasets.The experimental evaluation has shown encouraging results with 67%accuracy for the Urdu dialogue datasets,more than 10,000 dialogues are classified into five emotions i.e.,joy,fear,anger,sadness,and neutral.We believe that this is the first effort for emotion detection from the conversational text in the Urdu language domain.
