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...

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...

Communication culture is an important factor in crime prevention and public safety. The use of the basic concepts deontology communicative by representatives above-mentioned sphere process communication a good solution activities with citizens. A specialist working field must master theoretical elements communication, work on practice speech competence always be able to involve his speech. arti...

This article describes the nature of second language writing as process-oriented and discusses possibility using concept scaffolding in addressing difficulties mastering such an important communicative aspect a language. Development different approaches to learning is described context competence. Next, process approach discussed beneficial while considering complexity instruction. Finally, pre...

This paper reports work on the design of a natural language interface with a limited dialogue capability. It is argued that (i) The interpretation of the input is preferably represented as a structure of Discourse Object Descriptions (DODs); (ii) The DODs must be determined on the basis of different types of knowledge such as grammatical knowledge, object type deirmitions and knowledge about ex...

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...