Politeness and speech acts (1999) [2 citations — 1 self]
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by L. Ardissono, G. Boella, L. Lesmo
Proceedings of the Workshop on Attitudes, Personality and Emotions in User-Adapted Interaction at the 7th International Conference on User Modeling (UM '99
http://www.di.unito.it/~gull/PS/politeness-and-speech-acts.ps
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Abstract:
In this paper, we propose a logical description of the mechanisms which cause a speech act to be impolite, and of how the indirect expressions may prevent speakers from offending their partners. We specifically focus on conventional indirect speech acts, providing a formal framework to recognize the beliefs underlying them and the way how the possible offenses produced by communicative actions may be blocked by using politeness techniques.
