Negative Politeness Strategies in What Would You Do? TV Show

Being polite is significant to maintain good communications as well as social relationship and therefore various strategies are applied to show language politeness. This sociopragmatic study deals with negative politeness found in What Would You Do? TV show to describe the types of negative politeness strategies and investigate the reasons of choosing those strategies. This research applied a descriptive qualitative approach supported by statistics. The data were in the form of utterances containing negative politeness strategies, sourced in the conversations and the scripts between the participants and the actors. There were 106 data collected by note-taking technique from the show’s YouTube channel. The trustworthiness was attained through analyst triangulation. The findings show that seven negative politeness strategies are used by the participants in their responses to the actors: Being Indirect (12), Questions, Hedges (40), Minimizing the Imposition (12), Apologizing (25), Giving Difference (9), Being Pessimistic (6), and State the FTA as General Rule (2). The dominance of Questions, Hedges relates to the options provided to the addressee to accept or refuse the speaker’s request and to make utterances sound more polite. Related to reasons, the payoffs factor was dominant (with 84 occurrences) because it is the basic factor the participants might think about what they will get by applying a certain strategy. The circumstances factor has 22 occurrences, consisting of social distance (14), social power (5), and rank of imposition (3).

About some genetic terms, their content and education

Ambiguity of genetic terms usage leads to their misinterpretation and learning difficulties. The content of some concepts is analyzed as well as haziness and mistakes in usage of corresponding terms such as gene, allele, genotype, phenotype, polymorphism, heritability, variability and few others. Limitations of the model dividing separately impact of the environment and genotype in a feature formation are explored. The interaction of the environment and hereditary material is suggested as basic factor of genetic and phonetic variability.

Media literacy in libraries as a basic factor in information verification

The article provides a rationale for the need to introduce media literacy skills into the library industry. The author, taking into account his own experience, gives recommendations for finding reliable information which are available even to an ordinary librarian- there would only be a desire and aspiration to increase your efficiency. In turn, the banal aspects of hanging questions and problems in this direction were noted -it is disinterest and lack of understanding of the need for media education both by the librarians themselves and by officials-curators…

Methodology Of Vocational Training And Pedagogical Practice As The Main Factors In The Preparation Of A Future Teacher Of Vocational Training

The question of professional preparation of future specialists and their professional preparation opens up in this article. Pedagogical practice as basic factor of forming of future teacher of trade education. And also value of object "methodology of the vocational training" in forming of specialist, and also in passing of pedagogical practice in the field of trade education.

Quality assessment of the cloud-oriented environment for flipped learning of the future IT specialists

The article discusses the essence of the qualimetry approach and defines its role in the procedures for assessing the quality of the cloud-oriented environment for flipped learning in the process of training future IT specialists in higher education institutions. It offers a basic factor-qualimetry model for assessing the quality of such an environment, which can serve as a tool for its current monitoring and periodic review in the implementation of the internal quality assurance system of the educational process. The proposed basic factor-qualimetry model is based on the relevant criteria and indicators that have a specific weight. When building a factor-qualimetry model to assess the quality of the cloud-oriented environment for flipped learning of future IT professionals, 3 criteria and 26 evaluation indicators were identified, which were analyzed using the method of expert assessment. An example of calculating the quality of the environment is given. The obtained results allow to form individual approaches to the assessment of the quality of cloud-oriented environments, which are designed and applied in higher education institutions.

From Children's Giftedness to Real Talent: The Problem of "Transition"

The main problem of gifted children is the "transition" of their increased intellectual capabilities into talent, as the basis of creative activity, or, in another formulation, the transformation of children's giftedness into an actual talent. Analysis of available materials shows that the cognitive need of a significant part of these children takes the character of passive accumulation of a large amount of knowledge and therefore becomes an obstacle to such a transition. The search need is considered to be a basic factor, which is the "engine" of the creative realization of a gifted person, which ensures the search for new solutions and ways of action in contradictory and uncertain situations for the subject, and, thus, becomes the basis of his talent, future creative achievements. It is shown that in a number of gifted children and, above all, in the so-called "prodigies" the need for search is early and very significantly deformed, which in most cases is directly related to social influences. The article deals with the causes and consequences of a significant deformation of the search need in gifted children.

Unveiling strong dependence of the α-relaxation dispersion on mixing thermodynamics in binary glass-forming liquids

Non-exponential behaviors is basic factor of α-relaxation in supercooled liquids and glasses, in this study, structural α-relaxation dispersion in binary molecular glass forming mixtures with distinct mixing enthalpy ΔHmix, using...

The Critical Factors Affecting the Consumer Reselling of Limited Edition Products: A Case in the Korean Fashion Sector

Since e-commerce has revitalized recently in the form of live commerce and Instagram shopping, both purchase and sales have become promoted among consumers while reselling has been facilitated in second-hand item markets and among consumers. Particularly, the new trend of consuming products, rather than merely owning products, has become a mainstream factor in the market. Accordingly, consumers show extraordinary consumption, focusing on the act of purchasing limited edition products of high scarcity and placing more importance on one-off experience rather than ordinary new products or premium products. This study suggests critical factors that facilitate the reselling of limited edition products among consumers for the purpose of examining the consumer reselling of limited edition products, which has been a rapidly growing trend in the fashion market. Based on relevant studies, this research presents four basic factor areas: personal needs, value, experience, and environment. It also defines 20 sub-factors and analyzes the weight of each factor by means of the AHP method. In conclusion, it turned out that factors of personal needs were of the most significant influence. Particularly, it was verified that the need for joining was the most critical factor facilitating consumers’ reselling of limited edition products.

The Influence of Phases Division Surface in Nanocomposites Polymer/2D-Nanofiller on their Reinforcement Degree - The Percolation Model

The simple percolation model, in which critical indices are defined by the form of a reinforcing component of nanostructured composite structure, was proposed for the description of reinforcement degree for nanostructured composites polymer/2D-nanofiller. The indicated critical indices are close by absolute values to standard percolation indices. The form of reinforcing component controls the type of nanostructured composite. It has been shown that reinforcement degree of these nanomaterials is independent on modulus of elasticity of nanofiller, but is defined by its structure (aggregation level), created in polymer matrix. The percolation indices of a percolation model, which are due to the form of reinforcing component and nanocomposite type, are defined by its main characteristic – the fraction of phases division surface in overall sample volume and are the basic factor, controlling reinforcement degree of nanostructured composites.