In Pragma-Dialectics, individuals are studied while verbally interacting with each other in a critical discussion, in particular how they cooperate with one another, following Grice's cooperation principle, which resurfaces in this form of argumentation theory as the 'communication principle' (van Eemeren and Grootendorst 2004).
Although humans interact mostly verbally, non-verbal interactions are also fundamental in social life.
In the ILS framework, the manner in which adults interact verbally with children and the social context in which children's language interaction is stimulated are key.
Language skills are learned at home, and it is vital that parents interact verbally with their children.
These provide a way for humans to interact verbally with machines, a notion that is only now possible through the marriage of all this data, sheer (and cheap) compute power and the AI algorithms that fuel all of it.
Again, we are quite close to Brecht's didactical method, but one might say that we bring the audience one step closer to the fiction then Brecht did by allowing them to interact verbally.
SGDs are important for people who have limited means of interacting verbally, as they allow individuals to become active participants in communication interactions.
In addition, Puzzle Piece acquired OneVoice, an app that turns tablets into communication devices for children who have problems interacting verbally with other people.
Our observations of verbal and motor behavior show that most students in both treatments were not interacting verbally and not actively manipulating components of the activity during any given observation (Fig. 3b, c).
Previous research showed that newborns recognize familiar and unfamiliar persons when these persons had previously interacted verbally with them [33], [36].
