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Mazumder, Sahisnu – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Dialogue systems, commonly called as Chatbots, have gained escalating popularity in recent times due to their wide-spread applications in carrying out chit-chat conversations with users and accomplishing tasks as personal assistants. These systems are typically trained from manually-labeled data and/or written with handcrafted rules and often, use…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software, Dialogs (Language), Information Seeking
Al Ghamdi, Rowida – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study investigates the politeness strategies employed by Saudi EFL teachers when expressing their disagreements on Twitter. It examines the factors affecting Saudi EFL teachers' choice of politeness and disagreement strategies. It compares Saudi EFL teachers' disagreement expressions with those of American ESL teachers on Twitter. Four…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Dipto Das – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Through colonialism, external forces can alter and shift social structures and practices. It causes trans-generational, often normalized, invisible, and profound marginalization of the collective identities of local and indigenous populations. Decolonization is the resisting and undoing of colonial impacts. It's the process of reforming a…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Social Structure, Disadvantaged, Self Concept
Priscila Lopez-Beltran Forcada – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Studies assessing the grammatical knowledge of speakers of Spanish as a heritage language have largely focused on the Spanish subjunctive mood and have concluded, almost unanimously, that heritage speakers' knowledge of the Spanish subjunctive is non-native-like and subject to incomplete acquisition. However, there is also evidence that while…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Grammar, Native Language, Linguistic Theory
Londhe, Nikhil – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The ubiquitous hashtag has disruptively transformed how news stories are reported and shared across social media networks. Often, such text streams are massively multilingual with 50 different languages on an average and contain a combination of subjective user opinion, objective evolving information about the story and unrelated spam. This is in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Social Media, Social Networks, Grammar
Kulkarni, Vivek – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Language on the Internet and social media varies due to time, geography, and social factors. For example, consider an online chat forum where people from different regions across the world interact. In such scenarios, it is important to track and detect regional variation in language. A person from the UK, who is in conversation with someone from…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Computational Linguistics, Internet, Social Media
Grassi, Leo M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A number of approaches and methods are being used to assess higher cognition within online threaded discussions, as evidenced by the corpus of scholarship. However, a review of the literature suggests that current strategies relating to asynchronous discourse have tended to focus on cognitive processes that are mostly driven by task-oriented…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Schemata (Cognition), Critical Thinking, Computer Mediated Communication
Chiu, William Franklin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The Internet, as a digital record of human discourse, provides an opportunity to directly analyze political communicative behavior. The rapid emergence of social online networks augurs a transformation in the quality and quantity of information people have to evaluate their political system. Digital formats instantiate new categories of actors and…
Descriptors: Internet, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis
Boz, Umit – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Much research has examined how different patterns of social interaction shape language learners' interactional roles (e.g., collaborative, dominant, passive) in peer-to-peer conversations. However, little or no research has investigated the co-construction of such roles in multiparty, online task-based dialogues within the framework of discursive…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Discourse Communities, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes
Christopherson, Laura L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Increasing use of the Internet has led to a proliferation of online communication and information sharing media. These media, each with its own set of affordances and limitations, are thought to encourage new ways to communicate. Interlocutors refashion general English into abbreviated and often pictographic representations of existing concepts.…
Descriptors: Spelling, Information Technology, Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication
Lewallen, Andrea – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Introduction: Little is known about how group cohesion develops in online support group communities. Previous research suggests that message content, self-disclosure, and emotional expression may be central to this process. The purpose of this study was to identify linguistic and qualitative characteristics of participants' messages that…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Prediction, Qualitative Research, Regression (Statistics)
Garley, Matthew E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The influence of English on German has been an ongoing subject of intense popular and academic interest in the German sphere. In order to better understand this language contact situation, this research project investigates anglicisms--instances of English language material in a German language context--in the German hip hop community, where the…
Descriptors: Music, German, Computational Linguistics, Ethnography