(Gricean theories, for example, say that what counts is using the expression with a certain communicative intention).
He argues that entrenchment, or the frequency with which a linguistic element has been used with a certain communicative function, is an important constraint on the development of children's later syntactic knowledge.
The answer is no, for the assumptions are only that committing oneself, or having certain communicative intentions, is a necessary condition for making an assertion.
In addition, a genre deploys the resources of a register in specific patterns in order to fulfill certain communicative goals (cf. Thompson 1996/2004: 43).
The team defined the construct as "the ability to use English to participate in both receptive and productive communication activities relating to certain themes and in certain communicative situations" (National Education Examinations Authority 2014).
Situated at the nexus of variationist, interactional, and cognitive sociolinguistics, the present article discusses the phenomenon of 'Speaker Design', or the strategic use of linguistic varieties in interaction to achieve certain communicative effects (e.g. identity projections).
The responses of 51 participants are analysed in order to ascertain (i) the level of linguistic formality that would be employed in certain communicative scenarios, and (ii) the contextual features of these scenarios that have an influence on linguistic formality.
Various alternatives have been proposed: to expose learners to language that is just a bit more advanced than what they currently produce; to wait until a communicative situation demands a certain structure before introducing it; to let the grammar emerge naturally from vocabulary learning, or from the lived context of the classroom.
Nevertheless, it cannot be excluded that a certain degree of failure in the communicative process during the informative consent procedures contributed to the generally poor understanding of aim, calling into question the content of the information conveyed, as well as the simplicity of expression and vocabulary [ 26].
Unobtrusive, communicative, informal, he had a certain quiet charm, almost a tenderness of speech and glance.
There are no common and objective grounds on which to test whether both writers and readers regard a certain element as carrying exactly the same degree of Communicative Dynamism.
