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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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Comparison of face-to-face and videoconferenced multidisciplinary clinical meetings

TL;DR: A trial of videoconferencing of multidisciplinary breast cancer clinical meetings between three public hospitals was conducted in an attempt to increase attendance by medical staff at the meetings, and thus facilitateMultidisciplinary care for breast cancer patients.
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Cerebral coherence between communicators marks the emergence of meaning

TL;DR: Using coherence spectral-density analysis of cerebral activity simultaneously measured in pairs of communicators, this study shows that establishing mutual understanding of novel signals synchronizes cerebral dynamics across communicators’ right temporal lobes, favor the notion that meaning emerges from shared conceptualizations of a signal’s use.
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The input to verb learning in Mandarin Chinese: a role for syntactic bootstrapping.

TL;DR: A role for syntactic bootstrapping in Mandarin verb learning is supported and transitive verbs, motion verbs, and internal/communication verbs were distinguished syntactically.
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Self domestication and the evolution of language

TL;DR: An account of how self-domestication plays a crucial role in the evolution of language and the growing body of work that treats language structure as emerging from the process of cultural transmission is set out.
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Talking about interest: exploring the role of social interaction for regulating motivation and the interest experience

TL;DR: The authors found that the more students talked with others about an activity after it happened, the more they reported greater interest in the activity after the conversations, especially for Latinos and for individuals who scored higher on the Relational Self-Construal scale.