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Communicative Composition
… for the enhancement of communication literacy. Communicative Composition was built on the four pillars of personal, process, collaborative, and creative. These guidelines are then married with a synthesized definition of communication literacy, and Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy to create a working …
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En Route To Communicative Praxis: Understanding Natural Law and Several Communicative Implications
<p>This work claims communicative praxis is necessary and becomes increasingly more promising by introducing discussions that integrate explicit knowledge of natural law as a precursor for conversations regarding communication ethics. Taking a hermeneutical approach of returning to a text [book, …
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Dudley : a communicative project
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.
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Communicative efficiency in the lexicon
… in natural language phonology derive from communicative efficiency. I present evidence from phonetically transcribed dictionaries of 60 languages from 25 major language families showing that both probability distributions over phonological structures licensed by the categorical grammar, and …
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Autonomous communicative behaviors in avatars
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1997.
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Towards communicative river management in Poland
Contains fulltext : 74864.pdf ( ) (Open Access)
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Towards a Communicative Theory of Text
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:12:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004274.pdf: 6221003 bytes, checksum: 21ee00c7d97f52f6f5fdfca63e755a03 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Early word learning through communicative inference
How do children learn their first words? Do they do it by gradually accumulating information about the co-occurrence of words and their referents over time, or are words learned via quick social inferences linking what speakers are looking at, pointing to, and talking about? Both of these …
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Communicative Design: Transit Architecture for Growing Cities
<p>Increasing urban populations are currently magnifying the importance of the transit station in the context of its surrounding systems. In order to prepare our cities for higher population densities in the future, an examination of the relationships between station form and individual experience …
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Planning multisentential English text using communicative acts
… texts were analyzed with respect to their communicative sttucture, function, content and intended effects on the reader. This motivated an integrated theory of communicative acts which characterizes text at the level of rhetorical acts (e.g., describe, define, narrate), illocutionary acts …
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Cognitive and communicative pressures in natural language
… part of this thesis, I argue that cognitive and communicative demands strongly influence the structure of the lexicons of natural languages. It is known that words in natural language are distributed such that shorter words are more frequent and occur after more predictive contexts. I provide …
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Explanations and communicative constraints in naturally occurring discourse
… what a speaker says is context-bound. I talk of "communicative constraints" operating here. Chapter four reviews some work in the study of conversation with an eye to elucidating the sense in which a speaker's utterances are a product of the situation in which they occur and to look at the …
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Social-environmental Entrepreneurs' Communicative Actions in Communication Networks
Entrepreneurs' communicative plans and actions serve to attract resources to their venture, positioning them for strategic gains. However, there is little understanding of how entrepreneurs perceive, value, navigate, and manage their participation in communication networks. This research finds that …
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The Adaptive Value of Complex Socio-Communicative Behavior
… similarities and differences in sociality and communicative production between bonobos and chimpanzees in captive settings, using 9, 10-minute focal follows for each individual. Analyses revealed a significant positive correlation between social proximity score and total communicative signals …
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Communicative Meaning: Otherwise than the Denial of Death
… of New Orleans in order to uncover meaning-rich communicative spaces in which one can begin to consider the inherent power and responsibility that one must communicate about death. Though this project is guided by the metaphor of mythical Grim Reaper, the reader should not be confused about the …
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Music as a communicative art: Kurtág, Lachenmann, Pearson
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Men and Mustangs: From Communicative Messages Within the Wild Horse Inmate Program to a Communicative Theory of Learning How to Teach
<p>The purpose of this study was to discover the communicative messages within the Wild Horse Inmate Program. This dissertation developed the communicative theory of learning how to teach, a grounded theory based on the communicative messages of the Department of Corrections' officers and Bureau of …
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Teachers' perceptions of communicative language teaching use in Brazil
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been extensively discussed and researched. However little appears in the literature about CLT use in EFL environments, such as Brazil. Few studies explore CLT adaptation in EFL environments, and if they do, such studies are mostly in Asian countries (Li, …
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Communicative Construction and Maintenance of Palestinian Identity in Diaspora
This study investigated the construction and maintenance of Palestinian identity in diaspora. It provided a synopsis of the political and cultural meanings behind concepts such as home, identity, diaspora, hybridity, culture and visions of return. The dissertation yielded the way in discovering the …
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