The authors of this work believe that the fact political iconography can influence reality and intervene in actual events -sometimes by using reinvented motifs visual narratives from previous iconographic sources, after Warburg’s Pathosformel fashion–, is utmost importance campaigns. In modern electoral campaigns, use themes represent different emotions constitutes a clear link with pathos curr...

<p>Textbook has an important role in the process of teaching and learning activities. Therefore, this study aims to examine: 1) The Scientific Approach English textbook “<em>Forward</em>”; 2) Communicative Competence “<em>Forward</em>”. method used was a content analysis which it is kind descriptive qualitative research. results indicated that had implemented all s...

Involvement of medical technologies in healthcare encounters calls for a critical analysis of the communicative expertise of healthcare personnel dealing with the technology while communicating with patients. This paper explores how a discourse analytic approach, activity analysis, is fruitful when identifying what characterizes human interaction involving medical technologies. The paper sugges...

For the human-robot communicative interaction, it is difficult to design robots behavior which is preferable to human. In this paper, therefore, we propose an approach to personality characterization of the face robot generated by reinforcement learning with human instruction, and investigate its characteristics from some real human-robot interaction. We found that the face robot personality ch...