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interactants have. The police officer assumes a dominant stance when he confronts
the suspect with an incriminating fact: the act of confronting is dominant. This might
be strengthened by the power the police officer has, as he dictates the course of the
interview: a concern for the autonomy of the suspect. A dominant suspect might
use the strategy annoy to intentionally thwart the progress of an interview and this
could negatively impact the approval of the officer. Linssen et al. (
2013
) proposed
that interpersonal stance and politeness (face) are related. They suggest that the
dimensions of power and affect used in the model of Leary's Rose can be mapped
to the dimensions of face: autonomy and approval. For example, when a person
is very dominant, she does not take the other's autonomy into account. A similar
relation holds for the dimension of affect, as a person who is opposed to someone
else expresses disapproval of that person.
We further investigate the relations between the different concepts in the next
section and illustrate them using examples from the corpus. The related theories
will be integrated to form the basis for a computational model. As each theory
describes relations between the cause and effect of behaviour in an interaction, a
virtual tutoring agent (virtual suspect) could use a computational model of these
theories to predict the effects of its behaviour in an interaction with a human user
(see Sect.
16.6
on future work).
16.5
Illustration of Relations
In the previous section, we showed that certain concepts underlying the theories
appear to be related based on the data from our corpus (see Fig.
16.4
and Table
16.6
).
Here, we illustrate several of these links with example fragments from the corpus
that were not used for annotation and the subsequent factor analysis. We illus-
trate the
co-occurrence of concepts
(see previous section) that shows the relation
between the concepts of different theories. Also, we illustrate how our findings
might be extended to explain the dynamic aspects in a police interview.
16.5.1
Co-occurrence of Concepts
We found the strongest links between the
together
stance and
positive approval
concepts and between the
opposed
stance and
negative approval
concepts (see
Table
16.6
). An example from the Bruintjes scenario (see transcript below) shows
a together stance occurring together with positive approval. In this fragment, the
police officers are asking questions about the suspect's leisure time, to which the
suspect responds that she spends most of her time at the mall with her girlfriends.
The police officers respond to this by indicating that they understand what she
means (“Just chilling.”) and they all start laughing about this. In this moment,
the police officers are very much trying to sympathise with the suspect, thereby
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