Speech communication can be viewed as an interactive process involving a functional coupling between sensory and motor systems. One striking example comes from phonetic convergence, when speakers unconsciously tend to mimic their interlocutor’s speech during communicative interaction. In order to test whether deaf people with cochlear implantation did recover such perceptuomotor abilities, we m...

Jürgen Habermas wants to establish the theory of communicative action, in a time where society is under influence Instrumental mind. In other terms authoritarian mind through and capitalists markets controlling companies, state authorities society.
 intends visualize Communicative action. The social criticism that based on Anthropology, linguistics, ethics, politics, principles, philosophy...

A Situated Conversational Assistant (SCA) is a system with sensing, acting and speech synthesis/recognition abilities, which engages in physically situated natural language conversation with human partners and assists them in carrying out tasks. This thesis addresses some prerequisites towards an ideal truly cooperative SCA through the development of a computational model of embodied, situated ...

Consider an organization composed by a Leader and by a finite group of agents (or followers). The Leader has some ideal organization composition or vector of preferred actions one for each agent and can invest in costly socialization trying to instill this “corporate culture” in all the agents of the organization. Each agent has as well her ideal action. When an agent makes a decision each peri...

Multimodal communication involves multiple communicative channels including speech, facial movement, and gesture. Relatively few studies on how various communicative modalities are aligned in natural, face-to-face communication exist. As part of a larger project, the current study investigates how discourse structure, speech features, eye gaze, and facial movements interrelate during a map coor...

Embodied conversational agents (ECA) should exhibit nonverbal behaviors that are meaningfully related to their speech and mental state. This paper describes Cerebella, a system that automatically derives communicative functions from the text and audio of an utterance by combining lexical, acoustic, syntactic, semantic and rhetorical analyses. Communicative functions are then mapped to a multimo...

Predictive processes are crucial not only for interpreting the actions of individual agents, but also to predict how, in the context of a social interaction between two agents, the actions of one agent relate to the actions of a second agent. In the present study we investigated whether, in the context of a communicative interaction between two agents, observers can use the actions of one agent...

Advertising discourse has a number of features related to the specific context in which communication takes place. The addressee is usually sceptical, while addresser uses entire arsenal language make an impact. In this article, we focus on use etiquette formulas interviews. representation cultural code ecolinguistic paradigm particularly diverse speech etiquette. Etiquette (fr. étiquette - lab...