Essays on Conversation

Introduction This paper revolves around a conversation with the iPhone chatbot Siri. The primary focus of the paper is to look at the possibilities for Siri to be a social intelligent agent (SIA) or if the chatbot is not intelligent. To do so, a transcription...

In explicit cultural context, men and women are known to have very different conversational styles. These styles are unique unto each person given that they are a tacit dimension comprised of many attributing aspects. However, it’s noted in this article that one of these aspects,...

Interpersonal communication is a vast and complex type of communication that involve five features, being unique, unmeasurable, responsive, reflective and addressable, these five attributes with interpersonal communication mixed with giving off cues and taking them in. As Stewart (2012) discusses who we are – our...

‘Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers’ written by Kwame Anthony Appiah, examines the imaginary boundaries that have kept people from building social relationships. These boundaries consist of many blocks of communication such as language, morals, values, resources, etc. The effects of these boundaries have...

“Conversation Tactics” teaches how people may achieve success in conversation by implementing different kind of powerful techniques. The book will provide with tools that can be useful to deal with all the different conversation we may encounter. This essay seeks to discuss the Strategies Patrick...

Introduction My teaching experience with young learners has confirmed that speaking plays a momentous role in the language classroom. Although most of the activities aim to cater for good opportunities to talk, in fact, a little explicit teaching of speaking occurs. An interview conducted recently...

“Directness” The use of directness within conversations means extremely different things between Deaf culture and hearing culture. While the former relies on it for effective communication, the latter tends to avoid it for fear of disrupting conversation. Throughout this semester, I was able to further...