The phrase "communicative function" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the purpose or intention behind a specific piece of communication, such as a sentence or utterance. Here is an example of how you might use it in a sentence: "The communicative function of this sentence is to express gratitude and appreciation for your hard work."
As L2, Chinese language's value in Singapore can reasonably dwell in its practical communicative function and culture bond within Chinese community and it's hard to justify it on a national identity level.
In this paper I examine (1) whether the gesture is meaningful, in the sense of possessing a communicative function that involves socially influencing other community members from afar and (2) whether the gesture might qualify as a form of animal social culture.
Such activity may be generally compensatory and may improve overall communicative function, but will not reinstate purely syntactic functionality (Tyler et al., 2010 a ).
(e) Providing guidelines or designing policy options that assist decision-makers in their effort to communicate with and to the various target audiences (communicative function).
In term of open space and communicative function, the building created various spaces to facilitate communications.
You might imagine that the caressing had a communicative function, that it was part of the lead.
Though human vocalizations during intercourse have not been much studied, they do have "a quite elaborate acoustical structure, which suggests some kind of communicative function," said Dr. Townsend, who is at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Writing used to transmit information across space, as in letters, encyclicals, newspapers, and the like, may be considered to serve a communicative function.
The general principle that guided research in "functional sentence perspective" is that the syntactic structure of a sentence is in part determined by the communicative function of its various constituents and the way in which they relate to the context of utterance.
Just as there are paralinguistic activities such as facial expressions and bodily gestures integrated with and assisting the communicative function of spoken language, so there are vocally produced noises that cannot be regarded as part of any language, though they help in communication and in the expression of feeling.
Economic remittances have a symbolic and communicative function.
