Reciprocal vs Interactional - What's the difference?
reciprocal | interactional |
Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
* Shakespeare
Mutually interchangeable.
* I. Watts
(grammar) Reflexive; applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to pronouns that express mutual action.
(math) Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.
contrary or opposite
(arithmetic) Of a number, the number obtained by dividing 1 by the given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.
Of, pertaining to, or featuring interaction.
* 2001 , Gisle Andersen, Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation (page 69)
As adjectives the difference between reciprocal and interactional
is that reciprocal is of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way while interactional is of, pertaining to, or featuring interaction.As a noun reciprocal
is (arithmetic) of a number, the number obtained by dividing 1 by the given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.reciprocal
English
Adjective
(-)- reciprocal''' love; '''reciprocal duties
- Let our reciprocal vows be remembered.
- These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined.
Synonyms
* mutual, two-way * contrary, opposite, converse, inverse, inverted, cross * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- 0.5 is the reciprocal of 2.
Synonyms
* (in arithmetic) multiplicative inverseinteractional
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.