communicative
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His most influential work, The Theory of Communicative Action, published in 1981, argued that human societies were sustained not by political or economic power but by the capacity for rational dialogue.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
For the 2-year-olds, the researchers turned to the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories, which asks a parent to report on the child's vocabulary, language complexity and the average length of the child's longest three utterances.
From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024
Communicative situations nearly always contain rhetoric, the craft of persuading through writing or speaking.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
“If it hadn’t been for him, I wouldn’t be here now,” she said of Outterbridge, who also was a founding director of the Communicative Arts Academy in Compton from 1969 to 1975.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2021
Now, if you will just move up a little I'll take a seat in your Communicative Association.
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
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"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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Texas v. Johnson (1989)
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