Communication is a social activity of a combined effort of at least two participants, who consciously and intentionally cooperate to construct together the meaning of their interaction. Discerning the meaning of a communication act requires more than just comprehending the meaning of words and having a mastery of grammar: Communication cannot be reduced to a mere encoding/decoding process and r...

Abstract Background and purpose:Now-a-days, patient satisfaction is increasingly receiving the attention of health-service providers, which is a necessary step to enhance the quality of health services. The present study aimed at exploring patient-physician communicative patterns, physicians’ job satisfaction, and patients’ satisfaction at Isfahan, Iran. Materials and Methods:This s...

There have been many rich, naturalistic studies documenting prelinguistic communicative abilities that suggest that the ntegration of alternating eye gaze, vocal behaviors, and nonverbal gestures are indicative of intentional communication (e.g., ates, Camaioni, & Volterra, 1975; Bates, Benigni, Bretherton, Camaioni, & Volterra, 1979; Dore, 1974; Ninio & Bruner, 1978; revarthen & Hubley, 1978)....

This paper shows that emotional information conveyed by facial expression is often contained not only in the expression of emotions per se, but also in other communicative signals, namely the performatives of communicative acts. An analysis is provided of the performatives of suggesting, warning, ordering, imploring, approving and praising, both on the side of their cognitive structure and on t...

Communicative feedback refers to unobtrusive (usually short) vocal or bodily expressions whereby a recipient of information can inform a contributor of information about whether he/she is able and willing to communicate, perceive the information, and understand the information. This paper provides a theory for embodied communicative feedback, describing the different dimensions and features inv...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS This is the first study aiming to compare pre-diagnostic socio-communicative development of a female with typical Rett syndrome (RTT), a female with the preserved speech variant of RTT (PSV) and a control toddler. METHODS We analysed 1275 min of family videos at the participants' age between 9 and 24 months and used the Inventory of Potential Communicative Acts (IPCA) to d...

Communicative action concerns achieving and maintaining mutual understanding among all those who are involved in a coordinated (organizational) situation. Communicative action is embedded in a social context. Current approaches in the Language/Action Perspective have focused mainly on the dynamic aspect of language, that is, on (business) conversation. In this paper, we develop a new model of c...

The aim of this study was to assess development of communicative skills in 8to 16-month-old children. Information on 24 Swedish children’s speech comprehension and production, as well as their utilization of communicative gestures was collected. A version of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory, the Swedish Early Communicative Development Inventory (SECDI), was used. The number of ...

For over a decade, research has been conducted into artificial intelligence systems that have the ability to automatically generate multimedia presentations. The responsibility for insuring the communicative and aesthetic effectiveness of presentations generated by these systems has been restricted to a limited set of linguistic and print-centric discourses. This is opposed to creative practice...

This thesis deals with human communicative behaviour related to feedback, analysed across languages (Italian and Swedish), modalities (auditory versus visual) and different communicative situations (human-human versus human-machine dialogues). The aim of this study is to give more insight into how humans use communicative behaviour related to feedback and at the same time to suggest a method to...