communicative function

collocation in English

meanings of communicativeand function

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communicative
adjective
uk /kəˈmjuː.nɪ.kə.tɪv/ us /kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪ.t̬ɪv/
willing to talk to people and give ...
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function
noun
uk /ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/ us /ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/
the natural purpose (of something) or the duty (of ...
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Examples of communicative function

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The communicativefunction of each dialogue act has a task-related and/or an interactive-related function, and this permits definition of the key notion of coherence.
The dependent linguistic variant concerns the selection of pronoun number in a communicativefunction that expresses an unknown, indefinite reference.
To claim that the film's dialogue deployed profanity inappropriately emphasizes fit between context and communicativefunction, rather than fit between form and referentiality.
It is much more feasible for a community to revive the symbolic functions of a language, without necessarily changing their language of communicativefunction.
In such situations, the level tone does not seem to reflect any special communicativefunction.
Implications for the communicativefunction of gesture are discussed.
Many noted that it was particularly important for understanding the communicativefunction of the abstract sounding elements in a work.
Functional linguistics considers the communicativefunction of language as central to its concerns, but does not attempt to explain communicative ability itself.
Grammatical judgment, on the other hand, is not a communicative task and the lack of communicativefunction may result in lower language accuracy.
If artificial languages are used, validity can be increased by conforming to universals of natural languages and by incorporating communicativefunction into the language's design.
Communicativefunction: explain the function of the requested object while asking for it (to go to the airport), to improve feedback.
Lexical elements' communicativefunction is to express referential meanings.
Again, these results indicate that use of the marked word order depends on communicativefunction rather than text category/genre.
The cornerstone of traditional descriptive grammars is the construction : a recurrent pattern of linguistic elements that serves some well-defined communicativefunction.
A third problem is that, even if the variants have the same truth value, they may differ in their communicativefunction.
Whereas registers are defined by the situation in which a text occurs and its communicative function(s), text types are defined exclusively by the clustering of linguistic features.
Medium suspension is not repaired precisely because, in the talk where it occurs, it serves some communicativefunction.
Primary tone choice is seen as contributing in three main ways: it may signal information status, communicativefunction (speech act), or dominance/deference.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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