The article concentrates on the study of peculiarities functioning negative verbal nouns (deverbatives) in legislative texts. In process analyzing current laws Russian Federation, it was found that deverbatives used them have different degrees substantivisation, and most common are lexemes ending -ение, is, exactly those which semantics base is clearly manifested. On contrary, more strongly a w...

Non-verbal communication (NVC) plays a major role in various aspects of human life (Andersen, 2004; Cameron, 2001; Johnstone, 2008). Children learning their first language come to realize non-verbal communication as their socialization process takes place (Fletcher & German, 1990; Ingram, 1996; Owens, 2001). However, most EFL learners may have little exposure to these non-verbal aspects of comm...

Human and nonhuman primate communication differs in various ways. In particular, humans base communicative efforts on mutual knowledge and conventions shared between interlocutors. In this study, we experimentally tested whether bonobos (Pan paniscus), a close relative to humans, are able to take into account the familiarity, i.e. the shared interaction history, when communicating with a human ...