conversational partner


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Noun1.conversational partner - a person who takes part in a conversation
conversationalist, conversationist, schmoozer - someone skilled at conversation
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Add to this Duke's perfect ear for making the piano a conversational partner with the text, and we have in this cycle a small masterpiece.
take the risk to introduce yourself and be the first to say, "Hello." Act as if you are the host and introduce new arrivals to your conversational partner.
We have found that ECAs able to engage in "phatic," or relationship-oriented, behaviors challenge our notions of technology as tool and push us further than we expected into the metaphor of computer as conversational partner. They also represent deep technical challenges as we attempt to model the goals small, talk achieves in order to plan interactions with users.
Ironically, these narratives often represent the poet's conversations turned disconnected monologues for lack of a conversational partner. In "Letters to Solinka" there is the plaintive cry "Why don't you write," as the poet's journal exposes his disconnection with his lover, who is in Greece.
George was a conversational partner who stopped her feeling lonely.
"You" statements are accusatory remarks made during interpersonal arguments, such as "you always do that" or "you never believe what I say," that shift attention from the central issue to the perceived inadequacies of the conversational partner (Butler, 1981).
His conversational partner for the evening will be Rishad Tobaccowala, the Chief Growth Officer of Publicis Groupe S.A.
A live chat session will be set up to demonstrate how young children behave as a conversational partner in cyber space.
There is little in his background that might recommend him to the masses as a thinker, an analyst or even an engaging conversational partner. His low-grade mumbling provides a kind of counterpoint to the abundant screaming heads who attempt to insinuate themselves into arenas of serious discourse.
Manuela Kasper-Claridge reports from Phnom Penh."Cambodia is more capitalistic than the United States," says Tassilio Brinzer and enjoys how surprised his conversational partner is to hear that.
This made Eliza's continual open-ended questions ("Can you say more about that?") less suspicious to a conversational partner (Weizenbaum, 1976).
Such programs are often designed to convincingly simulate how a human would behave as a conversational partner, thereby passing the Turing test."