- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Digital Communication and Language
- Social Media and Politics
- Authorship Attribution and Profiling
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Subtitles and Audiovisual Media
- Topic Modeling
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies
- Conflict Management and Negotiation
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Spam and Phishing Detection
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Team Dynamics and Performance
University of Sheffield
2011-2020
Linguistic style accommodation between conversationalists is associated with positive social outcomes. We examine power and personality as factors driving the occurrence of linguistic accommodation, outcomes accommodation. Social was manipulated to create 144 face-to-face dyadic interactions individuals high versus low 64 neutral interactions. Particular configurations traits (high self-monitoring, Machiavellianism leadership, self-consciousness, impression management agreeableness),...
Communication accommodation theory predicts that social power plays an important role in influencing communicative behaviors. Previous research suggests these effects extend to linguistic style, thought be a nonconscious aspect of communication. Here, we explore if hold when individuals converse using medium limited personal cues, computer-mediated We manipulated instant messaging conversations and measured subsequent interpersonal impressions. Low induced greater likelihood style...
Abstract Strategic word mimicry during negotiations facilitates better outcomes. We explore of specific categories and perceptions rapport, trust, liking as underlying mechanisms. Dyads took part in an online negotiation exercise which was manipulated: Participants were instructed to mimic each other’s words (both‐mimic), one participant mimicked the other (half‐mimic), or neither (neither‐mimic). When given a simple instruction their partner, participants both style (personal pronouns,...
Social Network Analysis traditionally examines the graph of a communications network to identify key individuals based on pattern their interactions, but there is limit level detail which can be inferred from metadata alone. Message content richer source data, and provide an indication relationship between pair communicants. An individual's language use will vary depending addressee, this paper investigates set stylistic features may used predict nature within organizational hierarchy....
English Speed Networking Conversational Transcripts was developed at the University of West England and contains 388 transcripts face-to-face instant messaging conversations about business ideas collected in 2014 2015 from participants (undergraduate students) playing different power roles. This corpus created to examine communication accommodation, specifically, ways which an individual's linguistic style, or how individual communicates, is affected by social personality. The data two...