Male Guests Research Articles

Unpacking the gender-role interaction of prosodic entrainment in Chinese long-and-short turn-taking: evidence from perceptual and acoustic similarities

Prosodic entrainment, the phenomenon of speakers adapting their speech patterns to each other, has been extensively studied in short turn-taking conversations. However, little is known about its dynamics in long-and-short turn-taking contexts, such as talk shows. This study investigates prosodic entrainment in Mandarin Chinese talk shows, focusing on the effects of gender and role on entrainment behaviour and the correlation between perceived similarity and acoustic-prosodic features. We analysed a corpus of 50 audio files from a popular Mandarin Chinese talk show, examining three acoustic-prosodic features: pitch, intensity, and speaking rate. Prosodic entrainment was measured using proximity and synchrony-related distances at both local and global levels. Additionally, a perceptual judgement task was conducted to assess perceived prosodic similarity. Results showed that negative entrainment was more prevalent than positive entrainment across all three feature sets, particularly in speaking rate synchrony. The female host demonstrated larger positive entrainment compared to both male and female guests. Gender-role interactions revealed complex entrainment patterns: mixed-gender pairs showed greater local synchrony, while same-gender pairs exhibited more global entrainment. Perceived similarity correlated moderately with pitch for male guests in both local proximity and synchrony, suggesting pitch plays a crucial role in listeners’ perception of prosodic similarity. These findings challenge conventional assumptions about positive entrainment’s benefits in communication and highlight the complex interplay between gender, role, and entrainment behaviour in talk show settings. The prevalence of negative entrainment suggests that contrasting speech patterns can contribute to engaging and dynamic conversations in specific contexts. This study enhances our understanding of prosodic entrainment in long-and-short turn-taking contexts and emphasises the need to consider gender, role, and communicative settings in future research on speech accommodation.

Gender Perspectives on the Service Quality of Low-Cost Hotels

Service sector has recently become quite important to the global economy. The Nigerian government and numerous public sector investors are developing infrastructure and implementing sound business plans to take advantage of the hospitality industry's enormous potential in the service sector. However, due to the intense competition in the marketplace and the hospitality sector's rapid development, many businesses have felt pressure to distinguish themselves from rivals through superior customer service. Despite the level of competition among the low-cost hotels, most of the low-cost hotels in Nigeria still lack marketing concepts to attract guests. Previous studies on SERVPERF (service performance) model focused on other classes of hotels, neglecting low-cost hotels. Thus, this study analysed the SERVPERF dimensions regarding guests' satisfaction in low-cost hotels, from the demographic perspective (gender). Five undergraduate students received authorization from low-cost hotels to collect research data with the assistance of hotel employees. Each of the five survey teams consisted of a hotel employee who speaks and understands Hausa language (local language) as well as an undergraduate student from Federal University Gusau, Zamfara state, Nigeria. Data were collected from 300 guests at low-cost hotels and analysed through structural equation modelling (SEM). Composite reliability, Cronbach’s alpha and average variance extracted were used to test the reliability and validity of the instrument. It was revealed that assurance positively influenced male guests’ satisfaction, while reliability positively influenced female guests’ satisfaction in low-cost hotels. Furthermore, assurance negatively influenced female guests’ satisfaction. Male guests in low-cost hotels cherish the staff’s expertise and civility, as well as their capacity to instil trust and confidence. They want the hotel employees to make them feel comfortable while the services are being provided. The study’s practical implications are elucidated in this paper.

What Kind of “Green” do the Guests Want? An Exploration of Adoption of Luxury Hotel Green Room Attributes

This study aims to provide insights for sustainability initiatives in Singapore luxury hotels. We explore the impact of green room attributes toward guests’ satisfaction and hotel selection. We surveyed 387 respondents to identify their preferences for green room attributes. Among different green room attributes, we find that younger travelers are satisfied with cloth laundry bags, while older travelers appreciate wooden keys. A female guest is more likely to enjoy eco-friendly food and beverages amenities, while a male guest is more likely to appreciate motion or occupancy sensors. With regard to choosing a hotel, those traveling for leisure and at an older age ranked service quality as more important. Female travelers appreciate cleanliness compared to room rates, and those with higher education ranked sustainability initiatives higher. The analysis of demographic factors can be referenced by the hospitality industry practitioners and the hoteliers of luxury hotels operators when they plan to implement green room features or marketing strategies targeted to a specific segment of customers. As for the greater aim, the research contributes to the literature that focuses on the rise of green consumption to support global sustainability initiatives.

COMFORT WOMEN SURVIVING PANDEMICS: FROM ERASURE TO EMBODIED HOPE TOWARDS A FEMINIST-POSTCOLONIAL THEOLOGY OF RADICAL HOSPITALITY

The article accords epistemic privilege to comfort women as embodiment of the perversion of hospitality. It draws aparallelism between their surviving the pandemics of World War II as forcibly recruited sex slaves and COVID-19.Through their lived experience as survivors of pandemics, a feminist-postcolonial theology of radical hospitality firstcritiques biblical narratives of men’s hospitality to men. The parallel stories of Lot’s offer of his virgin daughters (Gen. 19)and the Levite’s offer of his concubine (Judges 19) expose, first, the hierarchisation of male guests over women, asproperty of men, and secondly, the inviolable creed of hospitality conferred on men by men, that is sustained by the cultural code that marks women’s bodies as violable. Secondly, the article argues that extending hospitality to comfort women (for example, war reparations) goes beyond the “law of ekstasis”, as touted in Fratelli Tutti, as comfort women themselves embody love, reciprocity, and inclusion.

Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-38

In Genesis 19.30-38, Lot’s daughters commit incest with their father to save his seed. Earlier in Genesis 19.6-8, Lot offered his daughters to be raped by the men of Sodom to save the honour of his male guests. Reading these stories together, in the latter, we observe an inverted world where victims become perpetrators and vice versa. If read through trauma theory, the inversion could imply that the daughters’ rape of Lot was motivated by revenge; however, traumatic re-enactment, where the daughters repeat their earlier trauma but also invert it, could also suit the textual evidence. Verses 30–38 could be read as an attempt to master previous trauma through repetition, where the recurring descriptions of design and act of rape are central to the interpretation of the narrative. This reading does not lessen the horror of the passage but rather adds to our understanding of trauma in Genesis 19.30–38.

Faktor Perilaku dan Kegiatan Tamu Hotel dalam Pemakaian Air Hotel di Yogyakarta

Scarcity of groundwater can cause conflicts between hoteliers and the surrounding community, because hotels use a lot of ground water. Researchers are interested in reviewing the use of groundwater in hotels, the results can be used as a reference for managing water use. This research was conducted in Yogyakarta by taking samples at two hotels, namely GIM and NSY , four-star standard hotels with 222 rooms and 206 rooms. The data comes from 210 respondents for the GIM hotel and 202 respondents for the NSY hotel, besides that it comes from interviews and questionnaires for hotel managers and staff. The findings on water use are that the average volume of water use per person per day for the NSY hotel is more (316 liters) than the GIM hotel (280 liters). There is a very strong correlation between shower/bathhub use and the total volume of water use r = 0.893 for the GIM hotel and r = 0.980 for the NSY hotel. There is a negative correlation between frequency and duration of shower use, which means that the more often you use the shower, the shorter the duration. Water use by gender, women use 61% more water than male guests 39% for GIM hotels while 64% women and 36% men for NSY hotels. This finding can be used as a reference for managing groundwater use through regulations so as not to cause conflict with the surrounding community and as part of realizing an environmentally friendly green economy.

My rural, vernacular house in context to COVID-19

Vernacular architecture offers clues and lessons to people. Purpose of this paper is thus to explore and identify attributes of a particular piece of vernacular architecture and try to relate it in context to COVID-19. It highlights attributes of the house in context to reimagining and redesigning built environment in days of COVID-19. Said piece of vernacular architecture is my ancestral house which no more exists since 55 years in a village I am from. Its plan, form, building materials and setting in a village teaches few things. House of single storey in mud construction was over a small plot of about 9 meters by 12.5 meters. Top of compound wall was above eye level offering great privacy and insider naturally avails environ offering pleasant solitude, the need of COVID-19. When one entered plot of house from road through compound gate on south-west direction of a plot, one is in a small courtyard. Immediate to entrance at compound gate was a room of about 2.5 meters by 2.5 meters with a veranda of about 2 meters by 2.5 meters. This space called “Gadaaro” was for male guests and males of a family. Courtyard which contained two cows continued beyond Gadaaro. Abutting on northern wall of a plot were walls of 3 rooms namely kitchen (northwest), a general room and a bed room (north east). From a courtyard one could enter to a general room leading to kitchen on its west and bed room on its east. Plan remained closer to what one needs to reimagine today in COVID-19. Construction from local building materials; mud-walls and a country tiled sloping roof offered many things expected in COVID-19. Findings here are that environ, house plan and construction materials has to be such that one can leave in for a long period without coming in contact with outdoors for days. House plan shall be fully contained and complete in itself.

Exploring gender-based influences on key features of Airbnb accommodations

Our research aims to address the following research questions: (a) to identify guests’ hidden experiences in a distribution of terms over a fixed vocabulary by analysing a bulk set of online reviews through the process of text mining, and in particular, (b) to assess if the Airbnb guest experience represented in them can be used to enhance Airbnb services. On the other hand, our study analyses the relationship between the topics identified and Airbnb pricing, and mainly measures the influence of gender as a moderating cue. In this regard, a growing body of research has emerged to examine gender differences in leisure participation. In particular, our study concludes how the guests’ gender affects the contributions of listings’ features in price prediction. Females are more intrinsically motivated and preferentially mention, for instance, the Airbnb accommodation’s location and the gratifying (local) experiences in their narratives. On the contrary, male guests highlight hygiene and apartment facilities. To sum up, our research provides design guidelines to reflect the willingness to hire an apartment, offering insights for research and practice, and allowing the layout of pricing-recommendation systems.

قضايا الشباب في البرامج الحوارية في القنوات الفضائية العراقية.

The purpose of this research is to identify the youth issues in Talk Shows in the Iraqi satellite channels via monitoring a sample of episodes of the Talk Shows episodes which are concerned and analyzed the youth issues in the Iraqi satellite channels, namely, «Hala Shabab Program» at Al-Iraqia satellite Channel and «Shabab wa Banat Program» at Al-Sumaria satellite Channel by recording and re-watching them again. This research is classified as one of descriptive researches. The survey method was adopted in this study. For this purpose, the researcher prepared an analysis form. The researcher designed the content analysis form based on the research problem, goals and questions related to the research problem, which included the categories of analysis that were presented to the experts, relying on calculating the number of occurrences and percentages as a statistical measure. The researcher reached a number of results, the most important of which are: The most prominent issues, that are displayed on «Hala Shabab» and «Shabab wa Banat» Programs, are focused on the artistry and cultural issues which are ranked firstly, and social issues are ranked secondly. The programs of the research’s sample are focused on (male) gender, according to the nature of the guests’ gender, via a large percentage (87.5%) for the program of «Hala Shabab», and (76.47%) for the «Shabab wa Banat» These percentages are indicated that the two programs are focused on the dialogue with male guests more than the female guests whose percentages of hosting, in the research sample programs, are very poor. The majority of programs’ guests, «Hala Shabab», «Shabab wa Banat», are respectively introduced the three high ranks (poet, civil activist and artist) for each. Such category of people reflects the concentration of this kind of program that hosts guests of these qualities in. The programs of the research’s sample are also different in the methods of presentation of dialogue issues largely and variously, namely the program of «Hala Shabab» is based on the category of (one dialogue issue) which is presented a large percentage (90%). Whilst, the program of «Shabab wa Banat» is focused on the category (more than one dialogue issue) which is inevitably presented high percentage (95%). Thus, there are variations and differences in the methods of issues presentation in the programs of the research’s sample. The most prominent issues, that are displayed on Hala Shabab and Shabab wa Banat Programs, are focused on the artistry and cultural issues which are ranked firstly, and social issues are ranked secondly. The programs of the research’s sample are focused on (male) gender, according to the nature of the guests’ gender, via a large percentage (87.5%) for the program of Hala Shabab, and (76.47%) for the Shabab wa Banat program. These percentages are indicated that the two programs are focused on the dialogue with male guests more than the female guests whose percentages of hosting, in the research sample programs, are very poor. The majority of programs’ guests, Hala Shabab, Shabab wa Banat, are respectively introduced the three high ranks (poet, civil activist and artist) for each, which are reflected that these programs are concentrated, on these qualities, in hosting guests. The programs of the research’s sample are also different in the methods of presentation of dialogue issues largely and variously, namely the program of Hala Shabab is based on the category of (one dialogue issue) which is presented a large percentage (90%). Whilst, The program of Shabab wa Banat is focused on the category (more than one dialogue issue) which is inevitably presented high percentage (95%). Thus, there are variations and differences in the methods of issues presentation in the programs of the research’s sample.

Turn-Taking Strategies Produced by Male and Female Presenters in American TV Shows

This study aims at examining the turn-taking strategies performed by male presenter, Jimmy Kimmel, and female presenter, Ellen DeGeneres, in two American TV talk shows. The data were analyzed using Stenstrom theory (1994) for the turn-taking strategies performed by both presenters. The findings revealed the following. (1) As the representation of male presenters, in conversation with male guests, Jimmy performed most of the strategies such as hesitant start, clean start, uptakes, links, alert, filled pause/ verbal fillers, silent pause, lexical repetition, a new start prompting and appealing. However, he did not apply metacomment and giving up strategy. Furthermore, in conversation with female guests, he used all the strategies, except hesitant start, metacomment, lexical repetition, a new start, and giving up strategy. (2) As the representation of female presenters, Ellen did not use metacomment, silent pause, and giving up strategies in her conversation with male guests. On the other hand, in conversation with female guests, she used all the strategies, except metacomment strategy. (3) This study also revealed that male presenters interrupted more often to female guests than to male guests, which supports the theory proposed by Zimmerman and West (1975).

Female Linguistic Differences Based on the Addressee’s Gender in Fox News Coverage

Journalism outlets provide coverage of Capitol Hill’s endeavors, but the passion and tension within the political atmosphere can elicit subconscious bias in treatment of interviewed parties. This study selects three female anchors’ respective July 12, 2018 Fox News broadcasts and analyzes their gender-isolating tendencies to offer mitigative or assertive language when engaging with male versus female interviewees. The data collected for the three anchors followed a trend of utilizing authoritative forms of language towards women and deferring with reservation towards men. These anchors displayed selective choices in the visibility of expressing dissent with significantly more interruptions of female guests and a greater use of hedges towards male guests. When accounting for the political parties of the interviewees, the anchors offered more deference to Democratic male guests than female Republican guests or female Fox News correspondents. These findings indicated a sociolinguistic difference which could possibly indicate a denial of equal opportunity to female interviewees on news broadcasts.

“You Know, Support the Team”: Representations of Gentile Masculinity on <em>Seinfeld</em> and <em>Curb Your Enthusiasm</em>

This article examines the images of White, non-Jewish (Gentile) men on two popular Jewish situation comedies: Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. I critically examine the portrayals of the shows' male Gentile characters and quantitatively analyze the differences between the Gentile and Jewish male guest characters. I posit the existence of a Jewish-Gentile duality on both shows—Jewish men frequently exhibit excessive sociability, whereas Gentile men are habitually depicted as asocial, antisocial, and "oddball" types that engage in off-putting, hostile, or bizarre behaviors. I conclude by considering the cultural implications of the shows' representations of Gentile masculinity.

UNDERSTANDING SOCIO-CULTURAL SPACES BETWEEN THE HADHAR AND BADU HOUSES IN KUWAIT

This study examines the socio-cultural spaces of the two major groups in Kuwait: the Hadhar and Badu. These groups are not an ethnic classification but are rooted in their historic settlements. The Hadhar refer to people who lived in old Kuwait town and were mostly merchants and artisans who made their living from the sea. The Badu on the other hand, most commonly referred to as Bedouins, are nomadic tribes who lived on the outskirts of old Kuwait town or in the Arabian Desert. This study employs cognitive maps to reveal fascinating insights into the lifestyles and cultural differences of these two groups as it relates to their domestic built environment. This study argues that house spatial organization is tightly coupled with a family’s socio-cultural traditions and values; hence, there are major spatial distinctions between the houses of the Hadhar and Badu. These differences are apparent in the houses’ main spaces such as the living hall, male guest reception space or diwaniya, and main entrance. This paper also contends that these differences are rooted historically in the traditional Hadhar mud brick courtyard houses and the traditional Badu Arabian tents. Although the oil boom and consequent impact of globalization transformed Kuwait’s houses into modern villas, on the inside they are still linked to each group’s traditional use of space.

The principles of design of interior of the modern Crimean Tatar coffee houses on the basis of national architectural and artistic traditions

In the article the features of construction activity of the Crimean Tatars in the beginning of the XXI century are analyzed. It emphasizes the relevance of modern coffee houses, which are an important component of the revival of national culture. The principles of creation of modern Crimean Tatar coffee houses based on creative use of national architectural and artistic traditions are developed. The positive results of transformation of ethnic Crimean Tatar habitation into modern coffee houses are analyzed, the communicative function of modern coffee houses is underlined. The principles of design of interior of the modern Crimean Tatar coffee houses depend on the location of the coffee house (in an old residential building, in a new building, in a renovated historic building), from the original functional purpose of the old building, from spatial and planning solutions for the new building, from the future public role of the restored historic building. When placing a coffee house in an authentic building of the Crimean Tatar house, the principle of design of interior of the coffee house is the re-creation of the konak-room (room for male guests). When placing a coffee house in a modern building, the principle of visual communication of the internal space with the external space is used. When placing a coffee house in a restored historical building, the principle of tactful inclusion of authentic objects of the Crimean Tatar culture and works of contemporary art in the interior of the coffee house is used. The need to study the experience of designing coffee houses by modern Crimean Tatar architects and designers is confirmed, since the creation of a national architecture is important for national self-identification.

AN ANALYSIS OF GENDER AND STATUS AFFECTING CONVERSATIONAL INTERRUPTIONS

Interruptions as conversational strategies can be used to achieve either dominance or cooperation in a talk. The purpose of this study was to analyze conversational interruptions between Thai genders with different social statuses. Five episodes of the talk show BeMyGuest sponsored by the Thai Government’s Department of Public Relations were selected to analyze which type of interruption, intrusive or cooperative, males with different social statuses made in interacting with the woman show host. A total of 217 utterances were analyzed for interruptions under Zimmerman and West’s (1975) guidelines. The results revealed that in the context of the woman having a higher or equal status as a man, the male interrupted the conversation more often than his conversation partner. However, in the case the host having a lower social status than the male guest, it was found that the woman interrupted more often than the man. The result in the last case does not support the dominance approach, which points out that men dominate women in conversation. Culture is considered an important factor accounting for the genders’ behavior of interruptions in the conversation.

Gender and age preferences of hotel room design

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate what people with different demographic characteristics such as age and gender expect from hotel room design and examine how design preferences affect purchase intent and desire to stay and word-of-mouth behavior.Design/methodology/approachThe study was based on a quasi-experimental design conducted on 762 participants. The manipulations of room color and design style were prepared using the 3D modeling software, while age and gender were self-reported variables.FindingsThe results indicated that age and gender moderate the relationship between hotel guest satisfaction and room design style. Younger guests prefer contemporary design style, while older guests show equal satisfaction with traditional and contemporary styles. Male guests prefer rooms decorated in masculine colors, while women are equally satisfied with masculine or feminine color schemes.Research limitations/implicationsThis study was conducted as a hypothetical, computer-aided experimental scenario. A field experiment captured guests’ satisfaction with an experimental hotel room. A substantive cause–effect relationship between hotel room visual servicescape stimuli and satisfaction was established.Practical implicationsIdentifying design style and color preferences of a hotel target market is paramount for investment payoff and further supports the customization of hotel services.Originality/valueThis is the first experimental study to manipulate color scheme and type of design in a hotel room and capture their effects on satisfaction and behavior of guests with different demographic characteristics.

Hostage to hospitality: Is there a relationship between ‘sexual hospitality’ and sex in commercial hospitality?

Abstract This article, through the prism of ‘sexual hospitality’ explores the tradition of the sexualized, objectified and later commodified roles imposed on women through their hospitality provision. Sexual hospitality was an ancient custom whereby the host provided a hostess from his household to the male guest for his sexual pleasure. It is argued that in the transition to contemporary commercial hospitality, women’s sexuality became a commodity employed to attract customers. In the past, hostess-guest behaviour was endorsed by societal and religious beliefs, whereas in the commercial sphere today, the sexualization of hospitality workers in some hospitality establishments, while not officially endorsed, nonetheless creates ambiguous and dangerous workplaces. There is a risk involved for servers as some customers still view women’s bodies as being available for their enjoyment in the hospitality encounter. A broad sweep of the literature indicates that commercial hospitality not only to some extent legitimizes, reinforces and perpetuates these historical gender stereotypes (both male and female), and unequal power relations, but also eroticizes hospitality, making it ‘sexy’, and leaving room for potential degradation and sexual violence. Studies that are more focused on specific time and cultural contexts are encouraged to consider whether contemporary servers are still hostage to patriarchal hospitality through the sexualized commodification of their labour.

Impression comments analysis in consideration of user profile of the online guests' review

Online hotel reservation is widely used for planning travel in recent years. The number of female guests for leisure usage has been increased more and more, to exceed that of male guests. The female travel demand called woman trip became an important market even for the travel industry. Potential guests usually refer to the guests’ reviews before making their reservations. Guest reviews consist of a user profile, numerical evaluation and impression comments. This reflects guest’s opinion about the hotel. In this paper, we aim to extract the feature of the guests' review caused by the gender difference with text mining. As a result, we have found that an impression comment complements the content of numerical evaluation, and showed the difference in the characteristic expression by gender.

Asymmetry of Hotel Ratings on TripAdvisor: Evidence from Single- Versus Dual-Valence Reviews

ABSTRACTHotel ratings given by reviewers on travel-related social media sites are generally perceived as symmetric. Using the perspective of positive–negative asymmetry, we challenge this perception by comparing the prevalence of single- and dual-valence reviews associated with opposite hotel ratings. Drawing on the findings of a content analysis of 500 reviews of a hotel on TripAdvisor, followed by three-way log-linear analyses, we found that dual- (vs. single-) valence reviews appear more frequently in extremely negative (“terrible”) than extremely positive ratings (“excellent”), but less frequently in moderately negative (“poor”) than moderately positive ratings (“very good”). In addition, men posted more dual-valence reviews than women when the rating was “terrible.” The findings, which add to the positive–negative asymmetry literature, imply that users should not review an equal number of positive and negative reviews prior to their booking decisions, and that hoteliers should motivate more of their male guests to write online reviews.

From single male guest worker to Muslim: An archaeology of iterating archival footage on Dutch television

From single male guest worker to Muslim: An archaeology of iterating archival footage on Dutch television