The results of the patients pointed out some strengths (turn-taking in production, and request comprehension, including hints and the speaker's intention) and some weaknesses (topic maintenance in production and metapragmatic knowledge).
Across the whole epoch Requests overall elicited more activation than Naming supporting the above predictions for the systems engaged in Request comprehension.
Additionally, social interactive knowledge is crucial in Request comprehension for keeping track of the intentions of both communication partners, the assumptions associated with different action moves within the action sequence, the commitments of the partners, and thus certain inferencing about their mental states.
Di Giovanni and Nagaswami (2001) (1) Questioning: requesting such as checking comprehension, and requesting suggestions (5%), (2) explanation such as opinions, agreement and disagreement (7%), (3) restatement (21%) & (4) suggestion (24%).
Therefore it is possible that contextual prediction could be relevant for speech act comprehension as well, resulting in early or even pre-stimulus differences between Naming and Requesting.
In order to ensure comprehension, health coaches request that patients "teach back" the process of checking their blood pressure and recording the values in their logbook.
Eleven participants with traumatic brain injury performed tasks in three areas of communication: production (interview situation), comprehension (direct requests, conventional indirect requests, and hints), and metapragmatic knowledge.
Although the advertising is alleged to provide consumer information, substantial evidence suggests that these advertisements offer limited information, are beyond the comprehension of many consumers, and are designed to empower consumers to request specific products by brand name.
Every reported problem was evaluated by the research team to determine whether the requested change was an individual preference or style-related request or a true problem with comprehension.
In contrast, comprehension of Requests may require processing the information about a complex action sequence structure they are embedded in, as well as knowledge of the mechanistic performance of the typical move following a Request (e.g. the act of handing the requested object over to the Partner).
The results reported here were obtained in the absence of an inferencing task and likely reflect implicit comprehension of Requests independent of indirectness, clearly indicating that the dynamic neuropragmatic network involved in comprehending Request speech acts encompasses both MNS and ToM areas.
