In this paper I discuss how communicative behavior can be represented at two levels of abstraction, namely the higher level of communicative intent or function, which does not make any claims about the surface form of the behavior, and the lower level of physical behavior description, which in essence instantiates intent as a particular multimodal realization. I briefly outline the proposed SAI...

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...

Mobile technologies such as smartphones and tablets have been rapidly adopted worldwide. Mobile media are now the primary online connection for most individuals. Despite this rapid rise, theories of how mobile media relate to communication patterns and outcomes remain scarce. An affordances approach promises a high-level framework for researching how technologies such as mobile media are integr...

This paper introduces a framework for the evaluation of geographic information (GI), divided into representational and communicative aspects. The representational component is concerned with how ‘real-world’ phenomena situated in space and time come to be represented or modelled in GI, considered at ontological, modelling and system levels. The communicative component of GI is concerned with ho...

We propose an approach to reasoning about conversation protocols within the framework of a logic-based agent language. We show how to embed a theory of communicative actions in the framework of a modal logic of action and beliefs, to specify software agents that, situated in a multi-agent environment, can interact with one another by a speech act based communication mechanism. Agents have their...

We propose an approach to reasoning about conversation protocols within the framework of a logic-based agent language. We show how to embed a theory of communicative actions in the framework of a modal logic of action and beliefs, to specify software agents that, situated in a multi-agent environment, can interact with one another by a speech act based communication mechanism. Agents have their...

We address the issue of rational communicative behavior among autonomous intelligent agents that have to make decisions as to what, to whom, and how to communicate. We treat communicative actions as aimed at increasing the eeciency of interaction among agents. We postulate that a rational speaker design a speech act so as to maximally increase the beneet obtained as the result of the interactio...

Non-verbal communication (NVC) plays a major role in various aspects of human life (Andersen, 2004; Cameron, 2001; Johnstone, 2008). Children learning their first language come to realize non-verbal communication as their socialization process takes place (Fletcher & German, 1990; Ingram, 1996; Owens, 2001). However, most EFL learners may have little exposure to these non-verbal aspects of comm...

Abstract Censure, blame and harms are central concepts in sentencing that have evolved over the years to take into account social context experiential knowledge. Flexibility, however, remains limited as current analysis focuses on offender while failing engage with state's contribution creating wrongs harms. This risks giving rise defective practices of responsibility since state can also contr...

Evaluation of the communicative efficacy of a website is important in the context of an organization communication strategy. To address this issue, we propose a systematic method and a tool that supports it. The tool is based on a general-purpose semantic annotation framework. The application and feasibility of the method are introduced through a case study where it was used to compare the comm...