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interactional

interactional

1 6.7
Relating to communication and how people or things affect each other
  • adjective
  • /ˌɪntəˈrækʃənl/
translation icon : interaccional
  • Patients' views should be considered the gold standard whenever interactional skills are concerned.
  • interactional skills
  • interactional patterns
  • interactional repertoire

Your community is the social and interactional spaces that you participate in.

Examples

  • Hence, most such studies have focused on the interactional aspects of the process.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Dishion, Andrews, and Crosby (1995) examined the interactional styles of aggressive boys and their friends.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Your community is the social and interactional spaces that you participate in.

  • Several examples of training in interactional skills have incorporated these elements.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Language and culture are on a feedback loop; changing one changes the other in complex interactional ways.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Treatment institutions or professional organizations can provide interactional skills training as a component of continuing education or quality assurance programs.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Thus, the teacher may have to modify resources and goals as the interactional context unfolds.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Teaching interactional skills in postgraduate training programs can assist in maintaining interactional skills and reinforcing their importance.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The individual contextualizations are then used for a set of highly motivating interactional activities.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The professor emphasized the importance of interactional dynamics during group discussions.

Synonyms

interpersonal
vsinteractional
30 4.2

About how people relate to and communicate with each other

applies more widely to people, systems, or things rather than people only
interactive
vsinteractional
17 4.2

Able to change each other when they are together

is about relations or communication rather than just the capability to affect
communicative
vsinteractional
4 4.2

Relating to sharing information and feelings by speaking or writing

also includes mutual influence and systems, not only the act of exchange
communicational
vsinteractional
  • Formal
1 6.8

About communication between people or groups

is the neutral general term for communication or mutual influence across contexts
dialogic
vsinteractional
  • Specialized
7.4

Involving a two-way exchange between a person and a computer

is broader, covering any communication or mutual influence beyond back-and-forth exchange

How Interactive

reciprocal
15 6.7
interactive
98 4.0
interactional
1 6.7
noninteractive
  • Specialized
1 6.1

Surface Forms

interactional positive

Morphology

interactional = interaction (transparent) = inter + act + ion + al

The adjective is a straightforward formation from the noun 'interaction' with the suffix '-al', meaning 'relating to interaction'.

Etymology

The word interactional comes from the parts inter- meaning 'between' and action meaning 'act', just like in interact and interaction, so it describes communication or influence that happens between people or things.