Good things come in threes: Communicative acts comprise linguistic, imagistic, and modifying components
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DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x15002939
Abstract: Abstract Gesture and sign form an integrated communication system, as do gesture and speech. Communicative acts in both systems combine categorical linguistic (words or signs) with imagistic (gestures) components. Additionally, both sign and speech can… read more here.
Keywords: modifying components; come threes; communicative acts; things come ... See more keywords
Multicomponent and multisensory communicative acts in orang-utans may serve different functions
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DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02429-y
Abstract: From early infancy, human face-to-face communication is multimodal, comprising a plethora of interlinked communicative and sensory modalities. Although there is also growing evidence for this in nonhuman primates, previous research rarely disentangled production from perception… read more here.
Keywords: production perception; different functions; communicative acts; multicomponent multisensory ... See more keywords
An eye-tracking investigation of the cognitive processes involved in the comprehension of simple and complex communicative acts
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DOI: 10.1177/17470218221079629
Abstract: Indirect speech acts communicate more than their literal meaning, and their comprehension relies on the listener’s ability to draw the appropriate inferences in a given context. We used eye tracking to investigate the cognitive processing… read more here.
Keywords: simple complex; communicative acts; eye; comprehension ... See more keywords