My parents weren't very communicative, I couldn't read, there was no television, and the kids in my gang of neighborhood friends were as ignorant as I was.
As the cancer reached his brain and he became less and less communicative, I would sit there and draw him because he was what I was thinking on, and I didn't know what else to do.
Few things are less communicative than "I was so happy I could die" or "I felt my world falling apart".
Since the rooks responded correctly in a particular setup only, they most likely did not perceive the gaze cues as a communicative signal (i.e., that the experimenter intended to communicate the location of the food), but rather learned a specific discriminatory rule.
My mother wasn't very communicative and I remember her giving us only one kiss in my whole life, but she was a brilliant speaker, a homeopath, an acupuncturist, a psychologist and she did advanced thinking, so that must have been somehow instilled in me.
He shows that economic transfers can be seen as "communicative acts i.e. as messages or public stances migrants endorse regarding their obligation towards their origin community" (2014).
This study explores two sub-sets of communicative competence, i.e. rhetorical style competence, and interpersonal and interactive competence requirement as perceived by selected participants of the academic and professional engineering community.
We used fMRI to investigate the existence of common and specific neural circuits underlying the comprehension of the same speech act, uttered with different communicative intentions, i.e., of being sincere, deceitful or ironic.
These transfers "are to be understood as a communicative act, i.e. a mode of expression of emigrants through which they formulate what they think they have to do in accordance with who they think they are" (Lacroix, 2010).
In another recent study on Southern Vietnamese, Dao and Nguyen (acoustic correlates of statement and question intonation in Southern Vietnamese, submitted) found that communicative functions (i.e., declarative vs. various interrogative forms) are conveyed by the global values of the three acoustic correlates: duration, f0 and intensity.
The left precuneus presented a significant negative correlation coefficient with the score of 2 communicative tasks, i.e., the turn-end task (p<0.05) and the affect task (p<0.05).
