This assignment is to analyze the language which is used in the academic article

named “Artificial cognition for social human-robot interaction: An implementation”

[1] in the field of Artificial Intelligence. It helps to learn how to write in my

discipline. I will discuss the features of academic writing style from Academic

Writing [2] in next paragraph.

The authors always used the first-person pronoun in this article. “We identify

first the needed individual …” [1]. “Our main contributions …” [1]. It shows they

emphasize teamwork rather than an individual has studied this research. The authors

mentioned “… the robot has no way to …” [1]. I think the authors prefer using no

negative forms to highlight the word next to no. In addition, they stated “… modules

can be found in their respective…” [1]. It presents the authors choose to avoid

writing you, so they used passive voice. The reason I explained in Journal Analysis is

that the journal’s purpose is to make easier understanding for audiences. Furthermore,

the article was written “…decides what action to execute …how it should achieved

and what signals should be sensed …” [1]. The authors almost chose the style of

indirect question to show the purposes they want to find or discuss in this article.

However, this article also has direction questions in order to describe the research

detail. For example, “… we ask the child ‘where do you think A will look for the

object?’” [1]. This article did not write the vague expressions [2]. “… modelling
humans and human cognition; acquiring, representing, manipulating in a tractable

way abstract knowledge at the human level …” [1]. This quotation shows that it does

not contain the vague expressions. Hence, I guess that the authors thought all contents

are important information we need to know so that they wrote whole details. Also, the

article has many adverbs to emphasize their actions or time. For instance, “We

eventually show how …” [1]. The authors prefer mid-position adverb placement to

write. I think the authors considered that mid-position adverb could clearly highlight

the verb next to the adverb. Similarly, the authors wrote adverb between to and verb

when they used infinitives. “… a cognitive robot to successfully share space …” [1].

References

[1] S. Lemaignan, M. Warnier, E. A. Sisbot, A. Clodic and R. Alami, "Artificial

cognition for social human–robot interaction: An implementation," Artificial

Intelligence, vol. 247, pp. 45-69, 1 June 2017.

[2] J. M. Swales and C. B. Feak, Academic Writing for Graduate Students, Ann

Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012.