communicatesuch

Communicatesuch is a term used in discourse theory to describe a communicative strategy in which a speaker or writer aims not only to convey information but also to signal the salience, scope, or interpretation of that information. The term blends communicate and such to indicate a meta-level signaling about what the content should be taken to mean or how it should be weighed.

Coinage and usage: The term emerged in discussions of pragmatic markers in the 2010s and has seen use in analyses of political rhetoric and digital communication. It is not widely standardized and may appear in variations such as communicatesuchness or communicates such.

Mechanisms: Signals associated with communicatesuch include explicit qualifiers, intensifiers, and hedges such as some, perhaps, or really; punctuation like ellipses or dashes; and syntactic choices such as topicalization or cautious predicates. Digital media often amplify communicatesuch effects through typography, emojis, and other peri-text cues.

Applications: In research, analysts describe passages that deploy such signals to guide reader interpretation; in natural language generation, systems may be designed to produce communicatesuch cues to improve alignment with user intent or context. The concept is used to study how writers and speakers shape audience perception beyond the propositional content.

See also: discourse marker, stance, illocutionary force, signaling theory. Status: A neologism in discourse studies; its definition and acceptance vary across subfields.