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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.

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Children’s Referential Communication Failure The Ambiguity and Abbreviation of Message

TL;DR: In this paper, a referential communication task of abstract figures was performed by 64 third and fifth-grade speakers, who produced messages for an imaginary listener, and the results revealed that 8-year-olds prod...
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Unconfounding common ground

Boaz Keysar
- 01 Jan 1997 - 
TL;DR: The paper demonstrates how consistent use of this necessary criterion will allow us to make stronger claims about when common ground plays a role and when it does not and evaluates some earlier studies which do and don't satisfy it.
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Gesture as representational action: A paper about function.

TL;DR: A theoretical framework is set forth for exploring why gesture serves the functions that it does, and it is proposed that whether or not gesture is simulated action in terms of its mechanism––it is clearly not reducible to action in Terms of its function.
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Listener vs. speaker-oriented aspects of speech: Studying the disfluencies of individuals with autism spectrum disorders

TL;DR: Results showed that individuals with ASD produced fewer filled-pause words (ums and uhs) and revisions than controls, but more silent pauses and disfluent repetitions, which appear to be listener-oriented features of speech.
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Accessibility to electronic communication for people with cognitive disabilities: a systematic search and review of empirical evidence

TL;DR: Although thin, the current evidence base indicates that the accessibility needs, requirements, and preferences of people with cognitive disabilities are diverse and ought to be reflected in accessibility guidelines and standards.