Syntactic competence, especially the ability to use a wide range of sophisticated grammatical expressions, represents an important aspect of communicative acumen.
Note that any speech act is characterised by the general intention to perform a communicative action; in this regard, Naming and Requesting are similar, so the brain activation differences are unlikely to reflect this general aspect of communicative intent.
The data so far obtained suggest that neuropragmatic processes draw upon brain regions for action, mentalising, and social interactive knowledge processing to compute different aspects of communicative meaning (Frith 2007; Spunt et al. 2011; Spunt and Lieberman 2013).
The problem, however, as Duff is well aware, is that it is not clear why "hard treatment [is] a necessary aspect of a communicative enterprise" (ibid., emphasis added).
From all identified factors we selected the facilitating aspects of the communicative behaviour of a GP providing palliative care and the issues that should be raised by the GP, and we summarized these factors into the 19 items of the ACA checklist.
A parallel may be drawn between the communicative aspect of civil disobedience and the communicative aspect of lawful punishment by the state (Brownlee, 2012 20044).
The results show the importance of communicative aspects for these kinds of tools, especially for tools that aim to stimulate several disciplines in working together.
Thus, it emphasizes measuring a communicative aspect of language ability.
Second, then, as the foundations of dogma and doctrinal orthodoxy, revealed truth-claims eliminate the self-critical and communicative aspect of human reason, and they undermine the dialogical preconditions of transcendence and existential self-knowledge.
(Although some judges have endorsed this caricature, it is worth noting that it clashes with how both dissenters and many theorists characterise their activities (Cf. Rawls, 1971; Greenawalt, 1987; Markovits, 2006).) Second, the communicative aspect of civil disobedience could be said to aggravate such offences since it usually is attended by much greater publicity than most covert violations are.
"One of the particular deficits in autistic children is not the language, per se, but the pragmatic, communicative aspect of language," Menon said.
