Directive Synonyms – WordHippo Thesaurus….What is another word for directive?

Here are a few examples of assertive communication:

• “I completely understand what you’re saying but I have to disagree”
• “I feel frustrated when you are late for meetings.
• “Could you explain the reasoning behind your decision, so I can try to understand what you’re doing”

Assertiveness is a skill regularly referred to in social and communication skills training. Being assertive means being able to stand up for your own or other people’s rights in a calm and positive way, without being either aggressive, or passively accepting ‘wrong’.

These are words such as explain, compare, contrast, justify, and analyze which indicate the way in which the material is to be presented. Background knowledge of the subject matter is essential.

A directive speech act is a reason to bring about the truth of a certain propositional content, and this propositional content is that of the directive speech act at hand. When (32) is interpreted as an order to clean the table, the utterance is a reason to bring about the truth of the proposition [the table is clean].

[It is] a true ‘speech act’ such as informing, ordering, warning, undertaking.” An example of an illocutionary act would be: “The black cat is stupid.” This statement is assertive; it is an illocutionary act in that it intends to communicate.

Two types of locutionary act are utterance acts, where something is said (or a sound is made) and which may not have any meaning, and propositional acts, where a particular reference is made. (note: acts are sometimes also called utterances – thus a perlocutionary act is the same a perlocutionary utterance).

According to Joos (1976), speech style is divided into five forms. They are frozen style, formal style, consultative style, casual style and intimate style.