Expression verbale des tendances à l'action en langue française(Verbal expression of action tendencies in French)

This article presents an experimental study on the verbal expression of action tendencies. Our work concerns dialogical interactions between a human and an conversational agent capable of expressing emotional behavior. One of the dimensions of these behaviors is the mechanism of the action tendency highlighted by several researchers in the field of cognitive psychology. We extracted 30 action tendencies taken from the literature in psychology and we defined context-free speech acts in French. The tendencies expressed were evaluated with 80 participants in two different contexts. This allowed us to validate the choice of locutionary acts for 21 tendencies to action. We also found strong similarities between some action tendencies in the dialogical context. In this article, we detail our experimental approach and the results obtained.

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