| 释义 |
communiˈcational, a.
[f. communication + -al1.]
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by communication(s); conveying information.
1961T. S. Szasz Myth Mental Illness ix. 154 The communicational effectiveness—or, in technical terms, the promotive power—of the indirect message was far greater than its direct equivalent..would have been. 1964V. R. Chao in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 41 It is often important for a message to reach a large audience, sometimes under conditions of great noise; noise both in the ordinary and in the communicational sense. 1968W. E. Lambert et al. in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. 475 The active use of the language in communicational settings. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Aug. 902/5 Today..the world has become a communicational unity. 1984Righting English 5 Dec. 3/2 Questions of technology, of power, of desire are not additional to a basic communicational situation, they are constitutive of the whole diversity of different communicational forms.
Hence communiˈcationally adv.
1970A. M. Horner Movement, Voice & Speech 22 Tongue and lips therefore took over the making of gesture with the added advantage that when vocalized they became..more resourceful communicationally. 1979Amer. Speech LIV. 36 The world seems to grow communicationally smaller. 1984Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. lxxi. 37 If usage is etiquette or criticism, then the uncouth..have less right to determine what is good than the socially and communicationally couth. |