How To Use Communicative In A Sentence

With a good score behind him and a couple of good catches, he was soon the most communicative person on the field.
He and Barton were now called upon for their names, and in return, we were favoured with the liquid and vowelly appellatives, by which our ingenuous and communicative acquaintances were respectively designated. The Island Home
A doctor with whom you have a good, communicative and friendly relationship is a rare beast.
But I was going through a reclusive and non-communicative phase, and his efforts to talk to me, to establish genuine communication, were met with a stony and moody silence.
`Christmas is Christmas," he said to me -- unusually communicative. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND

I was indeed incommunicative and incompatible with the kids at my grade level.
The reader's conception of the text in this case is the worst possible communicative situation.
It required two participants able to mean and to intend, locked into a social context of communicative exchange.
Remote and uncommunicative was their description as Whyte avoided the hoi polloi, preferring to spend time with the corporate elite.
Each of the elements he names demands a communicative, rhetorically performed reciprocity that today's electronic media make almost unthinkable.
Though these systems are described as communication, the central theoretical questions are whether the communicative utterances are referential and whether the utterers are mentally representing the referent, that is, whether the utterance is meaningful from the perspective of conspecifics. Animal Cognition
Marcus was confused when he arrived in the hospital, poorly communicative (not his usual self).
He did not get a high score on the test, he was uncommunicative in the interview, and his playing seemed immature, lacking the kind of complexity that is often seen as an expression of intelligence. Red Flags or Red Herrings?
However, although it is likely that making individuals active participants in community-building programmes enhances their communicativeness and sociality, there is no guarantee that 'developed' communities would 'reach out' across the ethno-sectarian divide.
The immediacy of his communicative performance made up more than enough for the occasional flat notes of which there were precious few in any case.
It's no wonder, since he's got seven harpish sisters who pick on him, leaving him a nervous, incommunicative mess.
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No wonder, therefore, that the term communicative approach has become so elastic as to embrace any methodology that foregrounds speaking in pairs or small groups. August « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT
A puzzle that immediately arises is how this complex reflexive communicative intention is meant to be recognized by the recipient.
This versatile book combines communicative activities with information on topics as varied as national customs, food, and the generation gap.
While one could cite various and sundry works to exemplify his involvement with and commitment to a multicultural approach to a communicative music, suffice it to say that, in the long arch of history, time had passed him by.
For example, it requires considerable communicative skill to be able to attribute uncertainty to the current state of medical knowledge rather than to one's own ignorance.
It is in this context of the various communicative competencies required for electronic production and consumption that the term ‘literacy’ (or for that matter ‘oracy’) is questionable.
At the moment, Smart is being open and communicative, signs that she has coped well.
I trace the origin of the arts to a source almost the opposite of male competition and display - that is, to the early communicative interchanges between mothers and infants.
Anyone who works with those who do not speak know that the word 'non-verbal' used to mean 'non-communicative' is just a falsehood. Unsaid Words
We have a very communicative approach to teaching languages.
But even this rather modest subgoal may be too much to require for the success of the communicative action qua communicative action. Pragmatics
He had a headache and was rather uncommunicative.
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Like a surrealistic melting stone, the sculpture blows up, exaggerates, and even overthrows the communicative relationship of the nature and its subjective.
As the recording of Walter Reiter and Cordaria shows, the less well-known Vivaldi does not lack elegance, spectacularity and virtuosity, liveliness and instant communicativeness.
It sends a message, it is communicative, and it seeks to impact the situation on the ground in a way which leverages a weak tactical situation.
Ever since the loss of his father's Korrigane he had been sour and uncommunicative, ready to take offense at the slightest comment. COASTLINERS
Its communicative possibilities are both opened up and closed off by its layered context of lyrics, background music, and prior performance.
None of them went into a downward spiral, becoming withdrawn or incommunicative or unable to function.
It is this primal, often uncommunicative nature of those who work the land and the seas, and therefore make up a fair percentage of the rural male population, that is at the core of these suicide statistics.
While for some, video games conjure up the image of the socially withdrawn and uncommunicative male, the milieu of video games is intensely social.
Thus, it is not necessary to recognize any communicative intention for these acts to succeed.
She was as uncommunicative as she'd been before and this time there was a dearth of clues. DISPLACED PERSON
Or rather, it de-emphasizes grammatical accuracy to focus on communicative fluency, and operates through holistic activities which stress the transfer of authentic information and the sharing of experience.
A documentary programme could form the basis for discussion in the weekly slot for communicative activities.
Never very communicative or outgoing, he continued to work but not to speak.
Human infants are highly social creatures who cannot help but interpret the ostensive communicative signals directed to them, " the researchers wrote.
Balding, short-sighted, and uncommunicative, he was driven by a powerful sense of duty and was a firm disciplinarian.
A puzzle that immediately arises is how this complex reflexive communicative intention is meant to be recognized by the recipient.
The website would provide the common interface to these communicative processes, as well as access to the tools for project registration.
At times she became profoundly withdrawn and totally uncommunicative; at other times she was wildly excited, violent, and destructive.
Balding, short-sighted, and uncommunicative, he was driven by a powerful sense of duty and was a firm disciplinarian.
Generally, girls start off in school being more articulate and communicative than their male primary friends.
It appears that the communicative competence is better displayed when children engage in pretense situations.
The last few months, when things started to not go so well, he became a lot harder to deal with, incommunicative, withdrawing from his previous sociable self, no longer happy to idle on IRC or chatter in email.
Mr. Gardiner, whose manners were very easy and pleasant, encouraged her communicativeness by his questions and remarks; Mrs. Reynolds, either by pride or attachment, had evidently great pleasure in talking of her master and his sister. Pride and Prejudice
Mr. do Campo said that Mr. Padilla was not incommunicative, and that he expressed curiosity about what was going on in the world, liked to talk about sports and demonstrated particularly keen interest in the Chicago Bears. Hullabaloo
This is not so as to obtain things there and then, but to share mental states and to build communicative relationships to other people in the long term.
It is a powerful communicative medium; a language which uses the mind and body to relate varied experiences.
Even when she was being stubborn and horrible and incommunicative, these women still loved her. Hot For Him
But after going upstairs for a shower he would grow uncommunicative and dour.
Children who are very passive and uncommunicative should alert us to the possibility that problems exist in the life of the family.
My communicativeness has been already encouraged with the perusal of two letters from the same ex-ceirent man to Dr. Bartlett; to whom, from early days (as I shall be soon more particularly informed) he has given an account of all his conduct and movements. Sir Charles Grandison
By ‘abnormal’ I mean that there is nothing ungrammatical, but what has been said violates the rules governing communicative competence.
The uttering of simple and obvious tautologies should, in principle, have absolutely no communicative import.
Its values now those of a specialist activity, design severs the communicative link which formerly bound it to society.
Thanks, Simon for your thoughtful, even impassioned, comment – it’s never too late to hear from someone such as yourself who has been at the forefront (one can’t say ‘cutting edge’ anymore, unhappily) of developments in communicative methodology and materials writing for so many years. S is for “Strategies” « An A-Z of ELT
The above strategies are potentially available for resolving the tension between word order and communicative function.
They have what we can call ‘communicative competence’ even though their grammatical competence in Gaelic is weak.
It was followed by an explosively dazzling Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 11, which affirmed her purposeful and communicative pianism.
A very communicative one too thanks those urethane bushes and the back axle bouncing up and down just a few inches from your backside.
Tommy is surly and incommunicative; his only meaningful conversations are with Jordan's mourning girlfriend.
Another character in the film, He Zhiuru, takes uncommunicativeness to the ultimate level; he has been mute since age five.
A mystery enveloped his beauty, his uncommunicativeness. The Grey Cloak
The communicative ability of the whale is thought to be highly developed.
What made Reagan extraordinary, beyond his communicative skills, was his resolute adherence to core beliefs.
Ed was my Syracuse University classmate, thus no spring chicken, but he refuses to let the new lingo close down his communicativeness. No Uncertain Terms
She has become a lot more tolerant and communicative.
Communicative activities impel mankind to form cognitive structure and help to develop human cognitive competence.
They represented one of the most fruitful and imaginative local jazz partnerships of the 1960s - a blend of bop's brittle urgency, swing's broad communicativeness and some of the trumpet/sax countermelodic spontaneity of Chet Baker's and Gerry Mulligan's partnership.
Recent ideas about language use and learning insist on the primacy of communicative activities in the classroom.
I am so disgusted by the slow-moving, unresponsive, incommunicative and, well, intellectually-asleep staff I observed that I am already dreading the return flight. Baggyk: Home, later than expected
But my communicative intention seems to be directed at a crucial subgoal. Pragmatics
Ruhr could be incommunicative and distant when it suited him, and it obviously suited him now. MAMBO
All available evidence suggests that ontogenetic ritualization, not imitative learning, is responsible for chimpanzees' acquisition of communicative gestures.
How then is the full communicative intention to be recognized?
It aims to put grammar in a context they can identify with, and includes communicative oral and written practice of structures.
Children who are very passive and uncommunicative should alert us to the possibility that problems exist in the life of the family.
They even adopted the boy, whom they recall as a lively, communicative, and welcomed member of the family.
Ruhr could be incommunicative and distant when it suited him, and it obviously suited him now. MAMBO
Not that that will worry the 26-year-old Swede, who, despite a speech disability, is as amenable and communicative as Webb is often abrasive.
This paper views interactional listening as being involved in two main aspects of the communicative processes: verbal understanding and respond of understanding.
The use of language for communicative purposes rests on the belief that other persons have minds much like our own.
Therefore, their images are an important expressive and communicative resource and should be part of the cultural debate.
Alan's uncommunicativeness extended below the level of speech, and his mother, reduced to the helplessness of dead-reckoning, had not even the solace of adapting her sympathy to his needs. The Quicksand
I was driven, obsessive (still am) and Don was imperious, incommunicative.
Perhaps he might have accomplished as much for Hawthorne;but how was Hawthorne in his retired and uncommunicative life to know of him?
Finally, they headed for the lunchroom in search of men in a more communicative mood. PAINT THE WIND
She has become a lot more tolerant and communicative.
A story, unlike a theory, invites embroidery and variation, and indeed stories gain their communicative power by resonance with more primal stories.
Similarly, clinicians rarely record all communicative exchanges with patients.
I find his poems endlessly approachable, wonderfully communicative and perfectly inexhaustible: stately, supple, personal and resourceful.
Do we credit her early opinion that he was closed and incommunicative? Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos: Questions
Signaling measures have included flare guns, cell phones, hand gestures, and other communicative means.
He's dour, self-absorbed, and incommunicative.
But to the last she retained something of her son's unresponsiveness, and an uncommunicativeness which tagged his as hereditary. Many Kingdoms
The emotional damage they suffered had left them moody, uncommunicative and sometimes violent. Archive 2009-11-01
I had often on previous occasions remarked that Panuel, who, when sober, was as silent as Videy, and looked like her in the face, became, the moment that he passed into 'market-merriness,' as frank and communicative as Sinfi, and (what was more inexplicable) _looked_ as much like Sinfi as he had previously looked like Videy. Aylwin
The crucial point is that such expressions should be warranted by conceptual and communicative purposes recognized as having point in classroom activity.
The interview below is an example of his long-standing uncommunicativeness concerning any criminal active by himself or any others.
Duncan, a precocious, affectionate child, had failed to live up to his academic potential, and had become withdrawn and uncommunicative.
‘Rather than adhering to a set form and a limited range of gestures, as in ballet, the dancer creates form as an outgrowth of his or her own communicative impulses,’ the dance school says.
Such extra communicativeness could give you no pleasure. Villette
A documentary programme could form the basis for discussion in the weekly slot for communicative activities.
Mayfield saw that Arning, who was withdrawn and uncommunicative, quickly found a means of expression through drawing.
He confesses that "a single hit of pot is enough to reduce me to a whimpering fetal crouch for several incommunicative hours at a time. Archive 2006-02-01
Increasingly she withdrew from her children, becoming “uncommunicative,” “undemonstrative” and “unaffectionate” toward them in a way that she was not with her animals.111 Storyteller
My vet is not very communicative or easy to get a call back once the initial treatment is set.
`Christmas is Christmas," he said to me -- unusually communicative. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
His stepfather's brand of Islam accommodated elements of animism and Hinduism, but Obama understood in retrospect that the overthrow of Sukarno in 1965, and the massacre of Communists and ethnic Chinese, had changed his stepfather from the idealist his mother had met at the University of Hawaii to an incommunicative man intent on surviving in the new regime. Dreams from Obama
This work, glorious in its breadth and deep communicative essence, is one of the beauties of the catalog.
Secondly, the ethical dimension of reason is apparent in the communicative process of a discipline.
The father and mother sat -- not side by side, in that propinquity which is so sweet, when every breath, every touch of the beloved's garment gives pleasure; they sat one at each corner of the table, engrossed in their several occupations; reading with an uncommunicative eagerness, and sewing in unbroken silence. Olive A Novel
Which of the questions below will reveal most about the reader's communicative competence?
Though silently, and for the most part incommunicatively, going about their business, they were, no doubt, a source of cheerfulness and a kind of society to one another. Cape Cod
Girls often described before as depressed and incommunicative, come back bubbling over with excitement to share their experiences and the stories of their success.
While for some, video games conjure up the image of the socially withdrawn and uncommunicative male, the milieu of video games is intensely social.
At times she became profoundly withdrawn and totally uncommunicative; at other times she was wildly excited, violent, and destructive.
He has a headache and isn't feeling communicative today.
Although awake at times, she was aphasic and incommunicative, at least to the physicians.
Acquisition is triggered by communicative activity.
And having thus revenged herself for her colleague's uncommunicativeness, she went her way. The Privet Hedge
His social skills improved so that he became more communicative, conversational and animated.
He agrees that any reasonably intelligent and communicative pairing of instructor and disabled diver should be able to sort out most problems, given a basic grounding in special diving skills.
The paper about peer communicative attribution belongs to the research of mechanism.
Try to be communicative with other people in your class but if that doesn't work do not stoop to their level.
A puzzle that immediately arises is how this complex reflexive communicative intention is meant to be recognized by the recipient.
This has involved, for example, investigating the communicative tasks in Japanese facing Australian tour guides working with Japanese tourists.
I thought he was saying that the thing we call a spoon is a prop or stand-in for a specific bunch of communicative understandings. The Forest for the Spoons
What made Reagan extraordinary, beyond his communicative skills, was his resolute adherence to core beliefs.
In terms of communicative chains forged from subacoustical links and phonemic kinks, the negated subjectivity of language, however aesthetically mobilized, is the very source of a textual ethics of intersubjectivity. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
Men, especially British men, tend to be so uncommunicative that it's easy to make the crass error that they have less feelings, and less sensitivity than women do. Amanda Craig discusses In A Dark Wood and describes the challenges of writing from a man's point of view
Grace, you'll never patch things up with him if you remain so incommunicative.
All six of Cooper's dancers have a strong classical ballet technique from which to push off into the modern, innovative and communicative dance they aspire to perform.
Attaining this state of mutual knowledge of a communicative intention is to have successfully communicated.
Philip Green, below, has a reputation for not being the easiest interviewee, but pity the poor soul who found him in uncommunicative mood when grilled by a financial website.
Soon after his return to prison he was noted to be melancholy, uncommunicative, was not interested in condition of self or surroundings, had unsystematized delusions of persecution. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
But his usual easy-going charm seemed to have temporarily deserted him, and she found him terse, uncommunicative, clearly unsettled by her absence.
Wilkins was one of the chief architects of what would come to be known as the communicative approach: his seminal Notional Syllabuses, building on his work with the Council of Europe, would be published in 1976. March « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT
Ever since the loss of his father's Korrigane he had been sour and uncommunicative, ready to take offense at the slightest comment. COASTLINERS
The crucial point is that such expressions should be warranted by conceptual and communicative purposes recognized as having point in classroom activity.
It appears that the communicative competence is better displayed when children engage in pretense situations.
communicative arts
In current pedagogic fashion, behaviourist practices have been largely superseded by cognitive and communicative perspectives on learning.
Being communicative and self-motivated, she found that soon she was able to do the job without difficulty.
In Virtues of the Mind, Linda Zagzebski (1996, p. 114) gives a very comprehensive list of intellectual virtues, adding such items as intellectual humility, perseverance, adaptability and communicativeness. Integrity
Abandoning the preconceived notions of tonality, and immersed within a musical state of dissonance, Coltrane's music became a communicative attempt at reaching a higher plane.
Instead of writing off incommunicative guys as jerks, step back and realize guys are people, too.
Here you are, this righteous babe: sexually adventurous, communicative, and you still got burned.
… Was my father so uncommunicative that I couldn't ever picture him in any close relationship?
Another major advantage is the insight it is capable of yielding into the social and communicative norms of the community.
It was quite astonishing how uncommunicative he was.
M-ness is defined thus: a masculinity that defines the best of traditional manliness (strength, honour, character) with positive traits traditionally associated with females (nurturance, communicativeness, co-operation).
Edward CastronovaI thought he was saying that the thing we call a spoon is a prop or stand-in for a specific bunch of communicative understandings. The Forest for the Spoons
‘We appear to be, my father and I, compulsively uncommunicative but articulate,’ she says when I ask her about this statement.
Indeed, the handshake has permeated our culture, our etiquette, our daily lives, to become perhaps our most important non-verbal communicative contrivance.
Each reader contains two pages of activities which provide a balance of structural and communicative activities.
It seems unlikely that overnight my son has developed the male propensity for uncommunicativeness.
But not all pretended deeds have to fall short of their normal function in order to accomplish their communicative purpose.
But I think incommunicative scientists are fine so long as they are accompanied by science communicators.
… Learners do not find room to speak as themselves, to use language in communicative encounters, to create text, to stimulate responses from fellow learners, or to find solutions to relevant problems (pp 8-9). C is for Communicative « An A-Z of ELT
The point being, there is a huge difference between writing for pure communicative purposes, and writing for more aesthetic reasons.
I think about the success my own coursebook series has had over the past couple of years (a 24-book series that focuses on “skills” – rather similar to the notional/functional approach you describe above, with “strategies” treated as facilitative actions that build on broader communicative skills), and it seems to be pretty good evidence that an applied (as opposed to unapplied) system still has resonance with learners and schools. S is for “Strategies” « An A-Z of ELT
Shopping - bag ladies are not very communicative and take general conversation as an intrusion.
The _Romans_ differed materially from the Greeks and the oriental nations in one point with regard to their treatment of women; namely, in never keeping them in a state of seclusion from the society of men: but the husbands were very incommunicative: and it seems at least to have been an Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II
The baby grows into a withdrawn, uncommunicative girl who is sent to a special school because no-one knows that she was born under a holy star that gives her supernatural powers, making her invaluable to the Satanic fraternity.
Thus, it is not necessary to recognize any communicative intention for these acts to succeed.
she remarked to her sullen and uncommunicative temp as she wandered into her cubicle after the meeting. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
As a result, Suzanne's songs use a language that is simple, communicative and often surprising, particularly for the unexpected stories she chooses to tell.
Much psychiatric medicine is undramatic stuff , involving the prescription of drugs to uncommunicative patients.
But not all pretended deeds have to fall short of their normal function in order to accomplish their communicative purpose.
Well, I'd have to argue that a lot of art photography can be conceptual and communicative, as can painting of course.
O no, sir, none in the least; yet I dont know how; our Bridget, the cookmaid, is not very communicative upon these occasions. Act the Second
The financials is really what takes up the time ... i'm trying to think of a way to improve the communicative basis of it. May 22nd, 2006
Although awake at times, she was aphasic and incommunicative, at least to the physicians.
was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew
However halting, impaired, almost uncommunicative the poem, I still have the perverse sense that the station to which it is tuned, however low, is merriment.
His wit was to him "as riches fineless"; he saw no end of his wealth in that way, and set no limits to his extravagance: he was communicative, prodigal, boundless, and inexhaustible. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution
He was in a bad mood at breakfast and wasn't very communicative.
She has become a lot more tolerant and communicative.
The approach is to encourage an active, informal and highly communicative visual experience, and long terms goals include curatorship and museology training exchanges between France and South Africa.
Another major advantage is the insight it is capable of yielding into the social and communicative norms of the community.
Cognitive theorists might add that the attention to meaning required in communicative interaction requires that learners ‘park’ their concern for formal accuracy, and thereby develop strategies – such as ‘chunking’ – that promote fluency. August « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT
I shall discuss the role of grammar as a necessary communicative resource in later chapters of this book.
‘She became really uncommunicative, angry with everybody and brutal to her mother,’ recalls Hardwicke.
But he is still seen by others as being rather serious and uncommunicative in public, especially when compared to the imaginative, publicity friendly ‘man of the people’ Dyke.
At breakfast next morning Fanny plied him with questions and was furious at his cool uncommunicativeness. Fanny Herself
Attaining this state of mutual knowledge of a communicative intention is to have successfully communicated.
All the pretty picture of the soft puppy, instinct with communicativeness, bursting with tenderness of petition, was veiled to his vision. CHAPTER VII
A documentary programme could form the basis for discussion in the weekly slot for communicative activities.
I only found out about the sale today, thanks to the natural communicativeness of lawyers.
Instead, identification is the result of a communicative process that interconnects reason and emotions.
The above strategies are potentially available for resolving the tension between word order and communicative function.

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