0 failure to communicate ideas or intentions successfully:
The more literal conversations observed between female strangers may reflect a selective use of metaphor to avoid miscommunication.
It is still unclear why this was the case on registration day, unless there was miscommunication between the officials and the chiefs.
An interpreter was often present to assist in administering the questionnaire to prevent any miscommunication between the parents and the research assistant.
Besides causing miscommunication, poor control of grammatical morphology may impede lexical learning.
The inclusion of real examples of pragmatic ambiguity and miscommunication in cross-cultural situations is especially welcome.
She also points out how miscommunication can end in disaster, drawing examples from air traffic.
Writers from each side aimed ' 'to correct miscommunication occasioned by the failure to know all the facts ' ' (118).
So it will not in any way detract from my analysis to consider miscommunication a form or variant of communication.