We present in this paper an alternative communication system (hereafter ACS) for handicapped persons. The problem consists in helping people to communicate in any situation with any kind of disability, including some kind of cognitive problems as well. Alternative communication primarily relies on an alternative access to the computer by means of various electronic devices (especially in the ca...

in this paper, we discuss the ways that communication accommodation theory (cat) can be a useful framework for understanding and diagnosing interactional issues in interpersonal and intergroup conflict situations. we argue that the theory’s construct of attuning strategies provides a multidimensional view of mutual adjustment, leading to insights relevant to successful versus unsuccessful confl...

The intercultural communication competence is one of the main objectives higher vocational English teaching, and it very important to cultivate students’ cross-cultural consciousness. This paper studies cultivation in expounds significance competence, analyzes current situation shortcomings puts forward strategies ways for improvement. aims promote comprehensive ability enhance college students .

In this study, we investigate how dynamic features of communication are realized in simulated processes. We hypothesize that ambiguity and context play important roles for maintaining the dynamics of success and failure in communication. We propose a game model of communication by adding ambiguity and context to Steels’ Language-Game. As a result of simulation experiments of two types of the ga...

Communicative language use largely entails regular patterns consisting of pre-constructed phrases or sequences. These sequences have been examined by many researchers to find the situation-based formulas which may help L2 learners follow a possibly more target-like speaking system. This study, therefore, explored two categories of formulaic expressions including speech formulas and situation-bo...