Stance-taking, the public act of positioning oneself toward objects, people or states of affairs,
has been studied in many fields of research. Recently, its multimodal realization in …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

Data compression is a promising approach for meeting the increasing memory capacity
demands expected in future systems. Unfortunately, existing compression algorithms do not …

The# BringBackOurGirls social media campaign on Twitter and Facebook was not only a
global campaign for the release of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, but …

Abstract Language is shaped by the relationships between the speaker/writer and the
audience, the object of discussion, and the talk itself. In turn, language is used to reshape …

We give an overview of engagement in human-agent interaction. We discuss the different
definitions of engagement in human and social science, specify how they relate to certain …

This book presents the narratives and voices of young, mostly male practitioners of hip hop
culture in Delhi, India. The author suggests that practitioners understand hip hop as both a …

The authors of this book belong to two generations, I myself to the older one. Since we refer
in the book to two theories that emerged the last century, one psychological, Gestalt theory …

Through the analysis of presuppositions, question design, social action and preference
organisation in short fragments of Italian question-answer sequences, this paper aims to …

In this contribution, we offer a first exploration of stance expressions in Flemish Sign
Language (VGT). define stance as the expression of feelings, attitudes, judgments …