Background: Conversation is central to building and maintaining relationships. Thus, it unsurprising that people with aphasia their familiar conversation partners often desire improved conversational ability. However, facilitate real-world communication, focusing on improving aphasic language difficulties not enough. We also need a comprehensive understanding of how social actions are accomplis...

The trumpeting by the Health Professions Council (HPCSA) of screening guidelines for emergency care workers handling victims of domestic violence - while welcomed - got a muted response from emergency medicine chiefs in the country's most brutal province last month. The two people heading the Western Cape's clinical protocols and training for emergency medicine and overall emergency medicine se...

Abstract The article analyses the emergence of decorum (appropriateness) as a central concept rhetorical theory in early sixteenth-century writings Erasmus and Juan Luis Vives. In theory, shifted emphasis from formulaic rules to their creative application concrete cases. doing so, it emphasized close analysis situation (above all preferences audience) underscored persuasive possibilities civil ...

We consider the functions that formulae perform in two types of written texts which maintain close links to oral forms: Old English epic poetry and blogs. Five oralityrelated functions of formulae are identified in both datasets: discourse-structuring, filler, epithetic, gnomic, and tonic. A sixth type of formulaic function, theacronymic, necessarily tied to the written medium, is also found in...

Formalization of natural language metaphors is a notorious problem in artificial intelligence and other overlapping domains. It semantic vagueness that makes resistant to formulaic or algorithmic descriptions. Great effort has been invested into modeling computationally but the issue remains methodologically uncertain needs further research. This paper works on practical solution how metaphoric...