The notion of communicative competence has been deemed fuzzy in communication studies. This fuzziness has led to tensions among engineers across tenures in interpreting what constitutes communicative competence. The study seeks to investigate novice and professional engineers’ understanding of the said notion in terms of two main elements of communicative competence: linguistic and rhetorical c...

The aim of this article is to explain multimodal coherence-making as a transcribing practice and how can be used teach multimodal, narrative, media competences in different genres. In arrangements, language makes images readable specific ways make understandable ways. This results an abductive understanding process that teaching learning contexts. idea meaning-making based on the social semioti...

In naturally occurring discourse, much that is meant to be communicated is left out of the explicit text. The interpreter must reconstruct much of the intended meaning ; and the generator can leave out information that will be reconstructed. In this paper, we use an abductive approach to generation and interpretation to provide an account of how the generative and interpretive processes can be ...

BACKGROUND Beyond providing cues about an agent's intention, communicative actions convey information about the presence of a second agent towards whom the action is directed (second-agent information). In two psychophysical studies we investigated whether the perceptual system makes use of this information to infer the presence of a second agent when dealing with impoverished and/or noisy sens...

Inspired by Terry Newman’s literary and sartorial analysis of writers in her book Legendary Authors the Clothes They Wore, I analyze James Baldwin’s style using excerpts from his works archival photography. also add a signifier/signified social semiotic theory. According to De Saussure, there are two main parts any sign, signifier, which connotes material thing, signified, is meaning that made ...

In this chapter several conceptual elements are exposed that help to understand what photographic narration is. This narrative style works with the inherent communicative power of images alone, above all when they combined effectively. Images can be classified according type, and we use classification as a guide make good power. However, before listing types, I would like propose game serve too...

This paper introduces the theory of communicative competence by Hymes, the interpretation of communicative competence by Canale & Swain, the elements of efficient communication by Widdowson respectively, and the limitation of the previous application in China with the teaching environment of Classroom plus blackboard, analyzes the necessity and feasibility of creating authentic communicative en...

In this paper I describe ongoing research that seeks to provide a common framework for the generation and interpretation of spontaneous gesture in the context of speech. I present a testbed for this framework in the form of a program that generates speech, gesture, and facial expression from underlying rules specifying (a) what speech and gesture are generated on the basis of a given communicat...

The attitude one has towards language learning determines the success or failure of learning the language. To this effect, this study aimed to explore EFL learners’ attitudes towards communicative language learning and the relationship between learners’ attitudes and English language achievement. To address these objectives, the study adopted a survey research design. Two hundred seventeen grad...

The attitude one has towards language learning determines the success or failure of learning the language. To this effect, this study aimed to explore EFL learners’ attitudes towards communicative language learning and the relationship between learners’ attitudes and English language achievement. To address these objectives, the study adopted a survey research design. Two hundred seventeen grad...