In sociology, communicative action is cooperative action undertaken by individuals based upon mutual deliberation and argumentation. The term was devoloped by German philosopher-sociologist Jürgen Habermas in his work The Theory of Communicative Action.
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“Strange goings on! Jones did it slowly, deliberately, in the bathroom, with a knife, at midnight. What he did was butter a piece of toast. We are too familiar with the language of action to notice at first an anomaly: the ‘it’ of ‘Jones did it slowly, deliberately,...’ seems to refer to some entity, presumably an action, that is then characterized in a number of ways.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)