The teaching of foreign languages to students in Translation and Interpreting (TI) programmes should be framed within the field Language for Specific Purposes (LSP). This would make it possible pinpoint specific curricular content methodological traits that contribute enhancement communicative competence initial development TI competences. paper analyses students’ perspectives on L2 a programme...

objectives: this descriptive study was conducted to determine the communicative abstract problem between elders with alzheimer disease and there caregivers. methods & materials: 100 main caregivers were selected by census. data was obtained by a questionnaire with a good validity and reliability. its reliability was measured by internal consistency (de=0.96) and test-retest (d=0.96) methods. da...

This study explores the potential of utilising certain prosodic qualities of function-specific vocal expressions in order to design effective non-speech user interface sounds. In an empirical setting, utterances with four context-situated communicative functions were produced by 20 participants. Time series of fundamental frequency (F0) and intensity were extracted from the utterances and analy...

The present research aims to investigate the distinction between simple and complex communicative acts in the context of extralinguistic communication. We propose that, within the same pragmatic phenomena studied which are standard communicative acts, deceit and irony a simple communicative act is easier to comprehend than a complex one. Our proposal is based on the different complexity of infe...

Resilience thinkers share an interest in collaborative deliberation with communicative planners, who aim to accommodate different forms of knowledge and styles of reasoning to promote social learning and yield creative and equitable agreements. Members of both fields attended a symposium at Virginia Tech in late 2008, where communicative planners considered how social–ecological resilience info...

This paper discusses the problem of generating communicatively adequate responses in information seeking dialogues and advocates the Constructive Dialogue Management (CDM) approach, which is an advance on previous research in that communicative principles are explicitly taken into consideration. Communicative principles are general inference rules which describe rational, cooperative action in ...

While early career researchers (ECRs) often read and produce articles for peer reviewed journals, they are of ten less familiar with review reports (PRRs). Most ECRs learn about the genre PRRs by reading written their authored manuscripts, through hands-on experience crafting own PRRs, albeit little guidance or exposure to exemplars. To demystify this ‘hidden’ academic genre, article on a analy...

\Ve view communication as action aimed at increasing the efficiency of interaction among multiple agents. Thus, we postulate that a speaker design a speech act so as to maximally increase the benefit it obtains as the result of the interaction. This paper presents a theoretical framework which can be used by this kind of the design process. Our framework consists of a representation of an epist...

Predictive processes are crucial not only for interpreting the actions of individual agents, but also to predict how, in the context of a social interaction between two agents, the actions of one agent relate to the actions of a second agent. In the present study we investigated whether, in the context of a communicative interaction between two agents, observers can use the actions of one agent...

BACKGROUND In the context of interacting activities requiring close-body contact such as fighting or dancing, the actions of one agent can be used to predict the actions of the second agent. In the present study, we investigated whether interpersonal predictive coding extends to interactive activities--such as communicative interactions--in which no physical contingency is implied between the m...