We have developed a humanoid robot called " Robovie ". The task is to communicate with humans and establish relationships by using various sensors and actuators. For designing the robot behavior, we have performed cognitive experiments, implemented the results on the software architecture, and verified the effectiveness in human-robot communication. This paper proposes an interdisciplinary appr...

The discursive-cognitive nature of the linguistic image includes: (a) a subject-sensory representation (the cognitive substrate phenomenon), (b) figurative word acting as its verbal exponent (c) discursive-associative architectonics communicative-event meanings concept projecting corresponding image. Narrative discourse plays special role in creating In this speech-thinking environment, an imag...

The purpose of the article is to investigate reasons and ways creating secondary nominations in modern Ukrainian medical discourse, find out features use such names different communicative situations. In descriptive, comparative statistical research methods are used. frequency names, namely unofficial substitutes for terms, situation doctor – was investigated by method questionnaires workers. s...

How do infants communicate before they have acquired a language? This paper supports the hypothesis that infants possess social-cognitive skills that run deeper than language alone, enabling them to understand others and make themselves understood. I suggested that infants, like adults, use two sources of extralinguistic information to communicate meaningfully and react to and express communica...

Currently, Communicative Language Teaching has been popular around the world and has a profound effect on second language acquisition since the 1970s. For Communicative Language Teaching to be successful, there is a need for appropriate teaching materials. This paper analyzes speaking tasks in Chinese and Swedish textbooks for grade 8,Go for it and Magic. The analysis presents content analysis,...

Over the first year, infants tune into the signals of their native language and begin to link them to meaning. Here, we ask whether infants, like adults, can also infer the communicative function of otherwise arbitrary signals (here, tone sequences) and link these to meaning as well. We examined 6-month-olds' object categorization in the context of sine-wave tones, a signal that fails to suppor...

Authentic poetic text as an object of foreign linguistic didactics is investigated in the article. Formation linguo-socio-cultural competence a constituent part communicative philology student from point view culture study analyzed. Attention focused on fact that “informative condensation” and “hyper-semanticism” well conceptuality, emotionality, imagery, rhythm euphony cause inexhaustible esth...

PURPOSE To investigate the social-cognitive performance of children with diagnostics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), mental disability (MD) and hearing impairment (HI) in two different communicative situations. METHODS Participated in this study 30 children ages between 3 and 12 years starting speech language therapy processes, divided in three groups: Group 1 - ten children with diagnoses...

This paper aims to verify the efficacy of Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment (CPT), a new remediation training for the improvement of the communicative-pragmatic abilities, in patients with schizophrenia. The CPT program is made up of 20 group sessions, focused on a number of communication modalities, i.e., linguistic, extralinguistic and paralinguistic, theory of mind (ToM) and other cognitive func...