Simone Reis

ABSTRACT This paper reflects about the use, in the regular school setting, of the Augmentative and Alternative Communication with autistic students. At schools, as well as in different spaces, people use speech to interact, to learn and to communicate. However, many students have a deficit in the latter and, to support cases as this, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) emerged, which promotes through symbols, gestures, resources, techniques and strategies, a partial or full support for individuals’ communication with verbal communication déficits. The research carried out had the AAC as its object. of study and as main objective the conduction of a systematic Biblioghrafic Review about the theme, with search in two databases: the Central Library of theses and dissertations (CLTD) and CAPES Catalog of Theses and Dissertations. During the investigation, sixty academic works were analysed and ten of them selected for a more detaild analysis, for getting closer to the central themes of this research. The results pointed that AAC is an essential tool for educational inclusion of autistic students, reducing communicative barriers. However, it is evident how many gaps remain about the debate concerning the implementation of Augmentative and Alternative Communication in the dynamics of educational spaces.

This paper discusses the semiotic dimension of patent interpretation. Patent documents are at the same time disclosure of information and a granting of rights. The claim section expresses the granted rights. In this paper, we view the claims as signs that express the granted rights. The semantics to interpret the signs is given by the all-elements rule, as pragmatics. The description and drawings sections of the patent document provide metapragmatics in the form of lexicon and syntax to help the understanding the claims as signs that express the granted rights. This semiotic approach for patent interpretation has important practical consequences to the correct structuring of a patent document. We highlight this contribution through an instance of a patent application in which a claim includes examples of use. Examples are not allowed in the claim text, as examples do not describe the invention, but consist of metapragmatics to better understand the invention. In this way, examples consist of metapragmatics and belong to the description section of the patent, which has the goal to facilitate the understanding of claims. In the patent application used to highlight our semiotics approach for patent interpretation, the examples initially presented in the claims were rephrased in the final granted patent, significantly reducing the scope of the claim.