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A Communicative Group is one made up of two or more individuals who act collectively and have underlying and discernable lines of communication around a specific subject(s). Individual members of the group have mental attitudes which are similar, overlap or can be synthesised such that they underpin common activities and objectives. These lines of communication may be formal or informal but are based on a common interest. For example, a board of directors is a communicative group but the company as a whole does not have sufficient coherency of communication and interest (directors, managers, shareholders, employees etc) to qualify as a communicative group and would be generalised to E74 Group. An informal example would include a group formed around a particular issue, for example, a political demonstration, will have sufficient lines of communication around the issue at hand to be acting as a communicative group and which causes them to demonstrate, despite differences in the specifics of their mental attitudes.

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