Example sentences for: communicative

How can you use “communicative” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Those who attend academic conferences soon come to dread the speaker who reads aloud a paper meant to be read in a journal: it is almost impossible to assimilate its information because none of the normal communicative devices used in viva voce communication are present--repetition being among them.

  • I can conclude only that that communicative intention is used to mean both denotation and connotation: but if that is so, then it would seem that the contrast implicit in euphemism is lost.

  • The terms used here are not immediately transparent: if by communicative intention is meant `denotative purpose, the information the speaker wishes to convey,' unless one views communication in the broadest way, it would seem to me that the definition confuses denotation with connotation; that is to say, whether an expression is euphemistic, neutral, or taboo is a matter of connotation, and the fact that a speaker avoids shit for defecate, move one's bowels , etc., is purely a connotative matter: denotatively (communicatively?)

  • Names of flora and fauna, names of implements, especially weapons, a few miscellaneous names of dwellings, ceremonies, people identified by sex or activity, striking features of the environment, and a handful of pidgin terms suggestive of an only rudimentary communicative exchange.

  • The FBI was more communicative during the millennium crisis than it had ever been.


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