Sentence examples for communicative partners from inspiring English sources

That is, when we engage in conversation, much of what we say does not involve making claims about the world but involves instructing our communicative partners how to adjust word meanings for the purposes of our conversation.

Moreover, the qualitative nature of gestures may differ between both species, insofar as nonhuman primates' gestures may not involve the same capacities of attributing mental states to communicative partners (e.g., Grice 1989; Sperber and Wilson 2002; Tomasello et al. 2003 for a review in chimpanzees).

These findings qualify the contributions of the right pSTS to human communicative abilities, showing that this region might be necessary for incorporating previous knowledge, accumulated during interactions with a communicative partner, to constrain the inferential process that leads to action understanding.

Anticipatory smiling (a low level form of joint attention involving smiling at an object then turning the smile to one's communicative partner) at 9 months positively predicts parent-rated social competence scores at 30 months in infants.

This elemental function is probably beneficial in following the mother, or in acting in the external world including the communicative partner.

Devices with voice output offer its user the advantage of more communicative power, including the ability to initiate conversation with communication partners who are at a distance.

Rapid recognition of the action sequence structure and the communicative intention behind the speech act was hypothesised to take place simultaneously with, or even prior to, the processing of the referential-semantic information, possibly followed by a stage of analysis of higher-order intentions and theory of mind-related assumptions of the communication partners.

Over a school year, children in experimental classes improved more than children in control classes with regard to academic attainment, motivation to work with others, group and on-task focus and showed high levels of communicative interaction with partners.

As long as you're communicative with your partner(s), honest about your intent, expressing your needs and being receptive of theirs, then there's nothing to be ashamed about, bisexual or not. 1.

As well, the ethos of democracy communicated by the partners intentionally facilitates open communicative interaction among all staff.

Although women appear to want to be dominated by men in sex, what they really find enjoyable is communicative sex where the partners seek to know and respect each other's desires just like participants in a good conversation (1989, 239).