communicative situation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcommunicativeandsituation
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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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situation
noun[C]
uk/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time ...
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In these cases we are faced with a differentcommunicativesituationwhere it is easier to be engaged in a more human-like interaction.
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Chapters 7 and 8 are the most valuable because they introduce thecommunicativesituationand functional aspects of translating.
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This puts the participants in acommunicativesituationin which they have to be both linguistic and cultural mediators.
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This is writing as a medium of language use that differs from speech in terms of processing constraints and thecommunicativesituation.
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In essence, politeness is dealing appropriately with others in a givencommunicativesituation.
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Online discussion fora have introduced a new type ofcommunicativesituationcharacterised by many-tomany interaction, physical distance and particularly low contextual information.
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Online discussion fora have introduced a new type ofcommunicativesituationcharacterized by many-tomany interaction, physical distance and particularly low contextual information.
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Media stylistics investigates how media speech depends on the type of content, aims of communicators and the wholecommunicativesituation.
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Indirect topics refer to a situational context such as the latest news, or the conditions of thecommunicativesituation.
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There are two different types of rules that individuals can apply in anycommunicativesituation.
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Future research should address how other emotional and linguistic factors contribute to creating individual differences in communicative situations.
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Functional grammar, then, differs from formal and structural grammar in that it purports not to model but to explain; and the explanation is grounded in thecommunicativesituation.
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Vocal expressions uttered in communicative situations have been particularly studied in relation to the gesture of pointing.
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You have to have some dialogue that is concocted and some genuinely communicative situations as well.
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Functional grammar analyzes grammatical structure, as do formal and structural grammar; but it also analyzes the entirecommunicativesituation: the purpose of the speech event, its participants, its discourse context.
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Language and semantics are inextricable and thus we need functional, naturalistic, communicative situations for learning.
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This is likely because of the contextual and semantic redundancy occurring in most naturalistic communicative situations.
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