severity, HDM-specific IgE, and CD30 are significantly decreased with occlusive bed covers, however, there was not a statistically significant difference between the study populations. Additionally, HDM allergen in this study was not common and may not be an important factor in the disease process of this population. Future studies should include participants with both sensitization and signifi...

When established communication systems cannot be used, people rapidly create novel systems to modify the mental state of another agent according to their intentions. However, there are dramatic inter-individual differences in the implementation of this human competence for communicative innovation. Here we characterize psychological sources of inter-individual variability in the ability to buil...

Genre analysis has received much attention in the last decades. For both academic and pedagogical purposes, different genres have been analysed terms of their rhetorical features. In English for Specific Purposes (ESP) tradition, genre focuses on communicative functions described moves steps, linguistic properties these functions. such an having structural aspects, researchers typically use mod...

BACKGROUND communicative functions used by language therapists and patients. AIM to analyze the communicative functions used by language therapists and patients of the autistic spectrum. METHOD the communicative functions expressed by six therapists in interaction with six patients each were analyzed, constituting 36 profiles of communicative functions expressed by the dyad therapist-patien...

Language is usually studied and analysed from different disciplines generally on the premise that it constitutes a form of communication which pursues a specific objective. The discourse, in that sense, can be understood as a text which is constructed to express such objective. When a discourse is created, its production is related to some textual genre, usually connected with some pragmatic fe...

This paper discusses the improvements that critical-complex pedagogy proposes to present situation analysis – a fundamental pre-course investigation of students’ communicative and learning needs wants in English for Specific Purposes literature. The expands beyond rhetorical linguistic conventions target discourse. A three-phase design an online Critical Academic course is presented demonstrate...

The problem of finding the most appropriate, sophisticated or innovative approach, technology and method teaching English for specific purposes has always drawn specialists’ attention. Nowadays a promising graduate any educational institution is to be able establish professional communication not only in native language, but also foreign one. A military academy an exception. Peacekeeping operat...

Human communicative competence is based on the ability to process a specific class of mental states, namely, communicative intention. The present fMRI study aims to analyze whether intention processing in communication is affected by the expressive means through which a communicative intention is conveyed, that is, the linguistic or extralinguistic gestural means. Combined factorial and conjunc...

Humans are biased toward social interaction. Behaviorally, this bias is evident in the rapid effects that self-relevant communicative signals have on attention and perceptual systems. The processing of communicative cues recruits a wide network of brain regions, including mentalizing systems. Relatively less work, however, has examined the timing of the processing of self-relevant communicative...