communicative purpose
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcommunicativeandpurpose
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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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purpose
noun
uk/ˈpɜː.pəs/us/ˈpɝː.pəs/
why you do something or why ...
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(Definition ofcommunicativeandpurposefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But there are some aspects of language whose existence contradicts thecommunicativepurposeof language.
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This will enable systems to adapt thecommunicativepurposeof any presentation to the user's task, without having to be told explicitly what to do.
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The 'function of a presentation' denotes thecommunicativepurposeof the presentation, methods for achieving that purpose, as well as a user's goals and tasks.
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The complexity of thecommunicativepurpose, as reflected in the relative weight of the three frames, may constitute different contrastive genres for members of the community.
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The training enabled the students to identify moves successfully, but they were less able to establish and formulate the purpose of moves within the text, and the overallcommunicativepurpose.
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Markl's analysis of mutualistic communication within groups of socially living organisms concludes that these organisms should inform their partners only as accurately as necessary to achieve thecommunicativepurpose.
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One of the biggest components in analyzing a form or document is to determine thecommunicativepurposeof the form or document.
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Thirdly, what do you do when a skilled writer deliberately blends the standard and the rest, for artistic and communicative purposes?
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Spontaneous speech samples have the advantage of reflecting children's vocabulary use for authentic communicative purposes without children's production being filtered through parental recall.
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The structuring and presentation of information for communicative purposes is an issue of primary importance in the development and assessment of safety critical systems.
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You can do it in minutes, and the rest of the class you can use for communicative purposes.
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Besides increasing vocabulary, one significant aspect of later language development is the ability to recruit different morpho-syntactic structures and to use them flexibly for diverse communicative purposes.
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Furrow (1984) also showed that children used prosodic elements of speech for communicative purposes.
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First, the term "pidgin" is generally used by linguists to refer to a simplified language used for restricted communicative purposes by people who normally have no language in common.
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Besides increasing vocabulary, one significant aspect of later language development is the ability to recruit different morphosyntactic resources and to use them flexibly for diverse communicative purposes.
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However, the answerer who felt cold there may consider this expectation too weak for his communicative purposes, and thus try to 'go against' its weak degree.
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