Automated information and production technology has been implemented widely at sawmills during the last 5-8 years. Sawmills have become information-intensive companies. The interest of the author is, how does the concept driven communicative development meet the technical rationality of a modern enterprise. In the project ‘Development network at sawmills’ we used the communicative action resear...

This paper presents a new perspective of the impact of information and collaboration technology (IT) on the work place and space. The study is at the intersection of the and new ways people behave in communicative events using the affordances of IT augmented spaces and content, i.e., interaction. The study proposes two hypotheses. Brick & Bits & Interaction Hypothesis: If we understanding the t...

Human communicative competence is based on the ability to process a specific class of mental states, namely, communicative intention. The present fMRI study aims to analyze whether intention processing in communication is affected by the expressive means through which a communicative intention is conveyed, that is, the linguistic or extralinguistic gestural means. Combined factorial and conjunc...

Humans are biased toward social interaction. Behaviorally, this bias is evident in the rapid effects that self-relevant communicative signals have on attention and perceptual systems. The processing of communicative cues recruits a wide network of brain regions, including mentalizing systems. Relatively less work, however, has examined the timing of the processing of self-relevant communicative...

Pragmatic ambivalence refers to a linguistic phenomenon in which the communicator uses vague or ambiguous words convey illocutionary force other party in specific context. It is an indispensable communicative strategy for successful communication daily activities. Relevance theory can explain pragmatic ambivalence from three aspects: intentional relevance, contextual relevance and reasoni...

Success of any innovation in the field education directly associated with learners’ perceptions about that. Communicative Language Teaching is an and this article attempts to discover attitude regarding this. This study will be very useful Pakistan where implementation CLT hot discussion mostly researchers worked on teachers. quantitative nature. Data was collected from students through questio...

Although language is an effective vehicle for communication, it is unclear how linguistic and communicative abilities relate to each other. Some researchers have argued that communicative message generation involves perspective taking (mentalizing), and-crucially-that mentalizing depends on language. We employed a verbal communication paradigm to directly test whether the generation of a commun...

â  examining the effects of teaching contemporary arabic literature through communicative approach â  â  â  maryam jalaei * â  narges ganji ** â  sardar aslani *** â  â  â  â  â  in order to make use of modern methods of teaching in the field of teaching arabic to non- native arab speakers, this study employed communicative approach for the teaching of contemporary arabic literature. thus, this...

The notion of communicative competence has been deemed fuzzy in communication studies. This fuzziness has led to tensions among engineers across tenures in interpreting what constitutes communicative competence. The study seeks to investigate novice and professional engineers’ understanding of the said notion in terms of two main elements of communicative competence: linguistic and rhetorical c...