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A Persona-Based Analysis of Politeness in Japanese and Spanish

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Abstract

We present descriptive accounts of ‘politeness’ in Japanese and Spanish by analyzing Japanese subject- and addressee-honorifics and Spanish pronominal addressee forms. Our accounts focus on inter- and intra-speaker variation in the use of these expressions. Observing this variation, we ask the question of how expressive content interacts with context. We develop a model of Bayesian Dynamic Pragmatics [26], and propose an algorithm for how the use of a politeness-oriented marker contributes to the dynamic creation of the speaker’s persona or publicized self-image. Our model captures multiple pragmatic factors that impact politeness-usage and persona simultaneously. As such, it is designed to be extended and explain comparable phenomena in other languages that employ politeness-oriented expressions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNew Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - JSAI-isAI 2020 Workshops, JURISIN, LENLS 2020 Workshops, 2020, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsNaoaki Okazaki, Katsutoshi Yada, Ken Satoh, Koji Mineshima
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages129-144
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783030799410
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event12th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence supported by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2020, International Workshop on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics, LENLS 2020, 14th International Workshop on Juris-informatics, JURISIN 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 2020 Nov 152020 Nov 17

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12758 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence supported by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2020, International Workshop on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics, LENLS 2020, 14th International Workshop on Juris-informatics, JURISIN 2020
CityVirtual, Online
Period20/11/1520/11/17

Keywords

  • Bayesian Dynamic Pragmatics
  • Honorifics
  • Persona
  • Politeness
  • Real Number-based Pragmatics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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