enunciative
- adjective
- /ɪˈnʌnʃəˌtɪv/
- The speaker used clear and enunciative language to ensure everyone understood the important points.
Examples
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Concepts like viewing or grounding, as used by Langacker, have their counterparts in the "enunciative" concepts of reprage or situation d'nonciation.
Academic text (2004) -
Films that deal with a female protagonist often appear to allow her significant access to point of view structures and the enunciative level of the filmic discourse, and they treat problems defined as "female" (problems revolving around domestic life, the family, children, self-sacrifice, and the relationship between women and production versus that between women and reproduction).
Academic text (1998) -
She describes her newborn subjectivity eighteen years later, at her enunciative site:
Academic text (1996) -
Dick's resistance toward inquiry prompts Crick to counter the threat that his silence might pose to the new, explicitly enunciative historical order.
Academic text (2017) -
The intertext, "the transposition of one or more systems of signs into another, accompanied by a new articulation of the enunciative and denotative position" (Kristeva 15), is alive and well and living in the two Alexandre(s).
Academic text (1994) -
He contends that from the interweaving of elements of the colonizer and colonized emerges an "interruptive, interrogative, and enunciative" realm of new forms of cultural meaning and production.
Academic text (2014) -
In the debate, her enunciative style helped convey her arguments effectively to the audience.
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His enunciative approach made the complex topic much easier to grasp for the listeners.
Synonyms
To speak words clearly so people can hear and understand them
Antonyms
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Enunciative comes from the Latin verb enuntiare, which means 'to announce' and is related to English words like announce and pronounce. So to be enunciative is to state or say something clearly, which fits its modern meaning about expressing or pronouncing ideas plainly.