{"id":"arabic-politeness","title":"A corpus-based analysis of politeness strategies in Arabic speakers’ interactions with ChatGPT","authors":[{"given":"Saleem","family":"Abdelhady"},{"given":"Konstantinos M.","family":"Pitychoutis"}],"first_public":"2026-06-23","date_note":"Journal publication date.","date_source":"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311983.2026.2691356","year":2026,"venue":"Cogent Arts & Humanities","paper_url":"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311983.2026.2691356","doi":"10.1080/23311983.2026.2691356","category":"language","relationship":"uses","relationship_label":"Uses WildChat and WildVis","dataset_version":"349 Arabic-dominant WildChat conversations with at least ten turns, retrieved through WildVis.","summary":"Examines user-side politeness in Arabic conversations selected through WildVis. The authors code prompts with an adapted Brown and Levinson framework and compare openings, conversation bodies, closings, and topic shifts to study directness and relational language in human–AI interaction.","finding":"Bald on-record strategies account for 88.42% of coded instances in the selected conversations.","evidence_url":"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311983.2026.2691356","evidence_note":"Sections 3.1–3.2: WildVis retrieval and coding. Section 4.1: strategy proportions.","bibtex_key":"abdelhady2026politeness","record_url":"https://yuntiandeng.com/wildchat/papers/arabic-politeness/","citation_title":"A corpus-based analysis of politeness strategies in Arabic speakers’ interactions with ChatGPT","citation_type":"article-journal","bibtex_type":"article","container_title":"Cogent Arts & Humanities","citation_url":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2026.2691356","citation_year":2026,"citation_note":"Published journal article.","volume":"13","issue":"1","pages":"2691356","publisher":"Taylor & Francis","date_label":"Published","date_source_label":"Publication record","publication_date":"2026-06-23"}