UNLABELLED This qualitative study used in-depth interviews to explore the communicative experiences and coping strategies of 14 adults who stammer. Their accounts revealed that those participants with persistent developmental dysfluency felt that stammering had limited their lives especially in the areas of employment, education and self-esteem. All participants shared key styles of communicati...

BACKGROUND the communication decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD) may have a significant impact on the quality of life of demented elderly and their caregivers. This can be subsided by the use of communicative strategies. AIM to evaluate the effectiveness of a communication strategies training program for caregivers of patients with moderate AD. METHOD this study identified the use and effec...

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...

The present study is an attempt to explicate the influence of gender and social status in selection English apology strategies different communicative situations. sample for consists forty-two EFL learners. Data were collected analyzed through Discourse Completion Tasks Interviews. Statistically, no significant difference observed use among gender; but result exhibits that both male female whil...

This study aims to examine the cross-cultural similarities and differences in the use of rapport management strategies (rapport enhancement, rapport maintenance, rapport neglect, and rapport challenge) in the complaints during service encounters based on Spencer Oatey’s (2008) model. To this end, 90 participants (30 Persian native speakers, 30 Iranian EFL (English as a foreign language) learner...