The analysis of sentiments is essential in identifying and classifying opinions regarding a
source material that is, a product or service. The analysis of these sentiments finds a variety …

Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) tend to show distinctive, atypical acoustic
patterns of speech. These behaviors affect social interactions and social development and …

Sentiment analysis as a field has come a long way since it was first introduced as a task
nearly 20 years ago. It has widespread commercial applications in various domains like …

Sarcasm is often expressed through several verbal and non-verbal cues, eg, a change of
tone, overemphasis in a word, a drawn-out syllable, or a straight looking face. Most of the …

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from
psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated …

This study investigates interpersonal processes underlying dialog by comparing two
approaches, interactive alignment and interpersonal synergy, and assesses how they …

Title description This monograph studies cognitive operations on cognitive models across
levels and domains of meaning construction. It explores in what way the same set of …

Laughter is a universally produced vocal signal that plays an important role in human social
interaction. Researchers have distinguished between spontaneous and volitional laughter …

This book is an application of relevance theory, a cognitive pragmatics theory of human
communication, to different types of humorous discourse (jokes, stand-up monologues …

Using Figurative Language presents results from a multidisciplinary decades-long study of
figurative language that addresses the question," Why don't people just say what they …