Politeness in East Asia

By D. Kádár, Sara Mills. 2011

Subfields: Linguistics

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1. Ruslan Salakhutdinov
2. Verena Rieser
3. Alan W. Black
4. Graham Neubig
5. Diyi Yang
6. Dirk Hovy
7. Y-Lan Boureau

Citations in the corpus

• Guiding the Release of Safer E2E Conversational AI through Value Sensitive Design (2022, background): “Arabic-speaking cultures, on the other hand, might find this use awkward, if not rude, in conversations among close friends (Kádár and Mills, 2011; Madaan et al., 2020).”
• Politeness Transfer: A Tag and Generate Approach (2020, background): “amongst the native speakers of North American English, such an act would be considered awkward, if not rude, in the Arab culture (Kádár and Mills, 2011).”
• The Importance of Modeling Social Factors of Language: Theory and Practice (2021, background): “While it is common amongst native speakers of North American English to use “ please ” in requests even to close friends, such an act would be considered awkward, if not rude, in Arabic-speaking cultures (Kádár and Mills, 2011; Madaan et al., 2020).”