The Hidden Figures: Exploring Manifestations of Unsaid in Human(IT)ies Training

Abstract Profound understanding of implicature is a vital precondition for successful communication, which allows recipients to appreciate the tone, relevance, and acceptability of the original idea in both intralingual and interlingual setting. This assumption accentuates the necessity to address the concept of implicature in sustainable interdisciplinary training of content creators and/or mediators. The issue might acquire even more complex reading in case of dealing with modern texts within hypermedia environment and if addressed in a heterogeneous learner group. The authors of the given paper propose an approach developed at the crossroads of dynamic and interactive learning exploiting the premises of edutainment in correlation with readers’ participatory continuum and rooted in the matrix of the competences aimed at advancing students’ cognitive flexibility. The authors invite to benefit from their creative know-how of applying six-word memoir frame for training implicature processing in class and during the selfpaced online learning. The proposed approach has been developed and tested in the multicultural and multilingual groups of students mastering content creation-related study courses at Riga Technical University. The in-class training experiment was conducted from 2018 to 2022. The proposed methodology was validated on a sample of 62 undergraduate students from four cohorts. Since 2023 the direct and indirect benefits of the approbated methodology have also been considered in the tasks of the MOOC courses co-developed by the authors of the research as the members of an interdisciplinary team within the project “Language Technology Initiative”.