The aim of this study was to examine if atypical parkinsonism affects the communicative ability in conversational interaction. Fifteen persons close to individuals with atypical parkinsonism answered a questionnaire, "Assessment of Change in Communicative Interaction" (ACCI), estimating perceived change in interactive skills compared to before the onset of the disease. The study also examined i...

The Macarthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) have been used widely to document early communicative development. The paper reports on a large community sample of 1,447 children recruited from low, middle and high socioeconomic (SES) areas across metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. Regression analyses were conducted to determine the extent to which communicative behaviours repor...

Dialogues are usually motivated by some underlying, noncommunicative goal. Participants in a dialogue therefore perform two tasks at once: that of trying to achieve the underlying noncommunicative goal, and that of communicating in order to achieve the associated communicative goal. This is reeected in the fact that dialogues consist not only of elements motivated by the underlying task, but al...

This paper used medical interpreting as an example to examine the recent attention to the communicative nature of translation and interpretation. In presenting the historical development of community interpreting, I examined the reasons why the communicative aspect of translation and interpretation has been ignored in the traditional translation studies. The recent research on community interpr...

If the target of foreign language teaching is to use the language, communicative language teaching (CLT) seems to be an ideal teaching model. The goal of teaching with this method is to use the language as a medium of communication (Adi, 2012).The application of the communicative approach in teaching English as a foreign language, however, is associated with some problems that can cause the met...

This paper proposes a novel procedural framework for the archaeological study of long-term transformation religious practices by heuristically defining in terms their functional-effective elements. Thus, activities constitute distinct communicative domain that responds to and processes uncertainties risks world. Drawing on this re-definition, procedure comprising following units investigation: ...

A wide area of research on Autonomous Agents is presently devoted to the construction of ECAs, Embodied Conversational Agents (Cassell et al. 2000; Pelachaud & Poggi, 2001). An ECA is a virtual Agent that interacts with a User or another Agent through multimodal communicative behavior. It has a realistic or cartoon-like body and it can produce spoken discourse and dialogue, use voice with appro...

The article discusses the methodological potential of fiction in developing professional and communicative competencies of Hospitality students based on interdisciplinary approach. The study focuses on the most actual aspects of speech culture and describes the ways of developing professionally oriented communicative competencies and the basics of professional speech training of bachelors in th...

We know a great deal about the neurophysiological mechanisms supporting instrumental actions, i.e., actions designed to alter the physical state of the environment. In contrast, little is known about our ability to select communicative actions, i.e., actions directly designed to modify the mental state of another agent. We have recently provided novel empirical evidence for a mechanism in which...