Communicative action, cooperative action undertaken by individuals based upon mutual deliberation and argumentation
Communicative assent, form of deliberative decision-making
Communicative competence, encompassing a language user's grammatical and social knowledge
Communicative disorders assistant (CDA), an allied health profession
Communicative dynamism, a linguistics notion
Communicative ecology, conceptual model used within media and communications research
Communicative language teaching, or the communicative approach, approach to language teaching emphasizing interaction as both the means and the goal of study
Communicative planning, an approach to urban planning
Communicative rationality, theory (or a set of them) describing human rationality as a necessary outcome of successful communication