interactional
adjEtymology From interaction + -al.
1
Of, pertaining to, or featuring interaction.
- The interactional function of pragmatic markers can be associated with social functions of language, such as the interlocutors' mutual recognition of the conversational relationship and the expression of solidarity and politeness.2001, Gisle Andersen, Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation, page 69:
- Derived terms
- interactionalism, interactionalist, interactionally, noninteractional
- Related terms
- interactive