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Using language: Communicative acts
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The article was published on 1996-01-01. It has received 2737 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Communicative language teaching & Comprehension approach.read more
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Same translation but different experience: the effects of highlighting on machine-translated conversations
TL;DR: Keyword highlighting in MT output made it easier for people to overlook translation errors and focus on what was intended by the message, and improved subjective impressions of the partner and the quality of the collaboration.
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Preference Organization and Reply Comprehension
TL;DR: This article examined the impact of a "well" preface on the comprehension of non-literal meanings in conversations and found that participants were significantly faster at verifying a face-threatening interpretation of a reply when the reply contained a well preface than when it did not.
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Computational Models of Miscommunication Phenomena
TL;DR: This work describes models for self- and other-repair detection that meet the requirements for more satisfactory models, including incrementality of processing and robustness to sparsity and investigates how they perform on datasets from a range of dialogue genres and domains, with promising results.
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If They're So Good at Grammar, Then Why Don't They Talk? Hints From Apes' and Humans' Use of Gestures
TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at the communicative activities of our nearest primate relatives, the great apes, with a special focus on their communicative gestures, which are much more sophisticated from a functional point of view than are their vocalizations.
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Interpretative Disputes, Explicatures, and Argumentative Reasoning
TL;DR: In this article, an argumentative approach to meaning reconstruction is proposed, which is applied to and tested against defamation cases at common law, in which the interpreter has a burden of explaining why a given presumption is subject to default, assuming that the speaker is reasonable and acting based on a set of shared expectations.