communicative intent

collocation in English

meaningsofcommunicativeandintent

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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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intent
noun[U]
uk
/ɪnˈtent/
us
/ɪnˈtent/
the fact that you want and plan to ...
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(Definition ofcommunicativeandintentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcommunicative intent

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Within the scheme outlined above the new proposal can be classified as a directed search with strongcommunicativeintent.
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This first listening interpretation was not accurate in terms of the composer'scommunicativeintent.
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This system identifies and codescommunicativeintentat two levels: the level of social interchange and the level of utterance.
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Instances of this kind would be utterances like mommy sock where thecommunicativeintentis not clear.
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The child must be able to understand not only what has been said by a partner but also the speaker'scommunicativeintent.
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The objective has been to combine rooms and instruments towards interpretations that have a specific rhetorical orcommunicativeintent.
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The novelty of the proposal is the use of pulsars as beacons in relation tocommunicativeintent.
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Similarly, in speech production, the speaker begins with a thought to convey, that is, meaning is "clamped" by the speaker'scommunicativeintent.
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These are fixed medium works where the composer'scommunicativeintentis based wholly or in part on the real-world referential characteristics of the sounding content.
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The findings of the study also confirm the importance ofcommunicativeintentin the development of early linguistic structure.
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Variability incommunicativeintentand indirectness may to some extent also stem from different cultural contexts.
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Because the form of the gesture bears no direct resemblance to its referent, deictic gestures expresscommunicativeintentby presenting objects for another's attention.
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In humanscommunicativeintentis as important as content.
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B's rule, on the other hand, will suppress all and only those who burn objects in public, regardless of theircommunicativeintent, if any.
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In other words, the experimenter's announcement of acommunicativeintentmight have alerted children that they should pay attention to both the words and the objects.
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Both types of play were considered important in that they exercise learners' linguistic imagination and are not controlled by others, and neither has any overtcommunicativeintent.
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Thus, merely being exposed to the forms-referents correspondences was not enough for children to learn the abstract correspondences, but being exposed to them via acommunicativeintentwas.
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