communicationthat
Communicationthat is a term used in some discussions of discourse and pragmatics to refer to a class of communicative acts that foreground explicit propositional content via that-clauses. The term is not widely standardized and appears in different forms across the literature, sometimes described as a practical pattern in everyday speech and sometimes as a theoretical lens for analyzing how propositions are introduced and anchored in discourse.
In one usage, communicationthat describes how speakers employ that-clauses to assert, report, or request with clear
Linguists examine how the presence or absence of that affects processing, ambiguity, and focus. The choice to
Researchers study communicationthat through corpus analysis, experiments on processing, and discourse analysis, often comparing sentences with
Some critics note that the term is not widely recognized and may obscure established distinctions between
See also: that-clause, complementizer, information structure.