Speech Act Theory as an Evaluation Tool for Human–Agent Communication

Early Communication: Beyond Speech-Act Theory

For the past two decades, speech-act theory has been one of the basic tools for studying pragmatics from both a theoretical and an experimental perspective. In this paper, I want to discuss certain aspects of the theory with respect to data from early communication in children. My aim will be to show that some of the central assumptions of the speech-act model of utterance comprehension need to...

Pragmatic Awareness of the Request Speech Act in English as an Additional Language: Monolinguals or Bilinguals?

This study attempted to investigate the effect of bilingualism on pragmaticawareness and development among Iranian Turkish/Persian EFL learners. Data werecollected through a personal profile questionnaire with questions about theparticipants’ language background and a WDCT with 10 situations to determine theextent to which the bilinguals demonstrated their pragmatic awareness of requests.They w...

ACT: a web-based adaptive communication tool

This paper presents a web-based adaptive communication tool, called ACT. ACT supports and guides the learners’ communication/collaboration by implementing the structured dialogue either through sentence openers or communication acts. The scaffolding sentence templates are adapted according to the cognitive skills addressed by the learning activity, the model of collaboration followed and the ed...

Short Communication: Using polychaetes as an assessment tool for health status of Jafari Creek, North-West of the Persian Gulf

Short Communication: Using polychaetes as an assessment tool for health status of Jafari Creek, North-West of the Persian Gulf