Communicative may refer to:
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Communicative action
In sociology, communicative action is cooperative action undertaken by individuals based upon mutual deliberation and argumentation. The term was developed by German philosopher- sociologist Jürgen Habermas in his work '' The Theory of Communicati ...
, cooperative action undertaken by individuals based upon mutual deliberation and argumentation
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Communicative assent, form of deliberative decision-making
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Communicative competence The concept of communicative competence, as developed in linguistics, originated in response to perceived inadequacy of the notion of linguistic competence. That is, communicative competence encompasses a language user's grammatical knowledge of syn ...
, encompassing a language user's grammatical and social knowledge
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Communicative disorders assistant
A communicative disorders assistant (CDA) performs hearing and speech-language screenings, prepares therapy materials, implements speech therapy, reports on therapy outcomes, performs routine maintenance on clinical equipment, and works with spee ...
(CDA), an allied health profession
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Communicative dynamism, a linguistics notion
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Communicative ecology, conceptual model used within media and communications research
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Communicative language teaching
Communicative language teaching (CLT), or the communicative approach (CA) , is an approach to language teaching that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of study.
Learners in environments using communication to learn and ...
, or the communicative approach, approach to language teaching emphasizing interaction as both the means and the goal of study
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Communicative planning, an approach to urban planning
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Communicative rationality
Communicative rationality or communicative reason (german: kommunikative Rationalität) is a theory or set of theories which describes human rationality as a necessary outcome of successful communication. This theory, borne from the over inflation ...
, theory (or a set of them) describing human rationality as a necessary outcome of successful communication
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