Communicative Competence combines linguistic resources with knowledge of what is feasible, appropriate, and actually practiced in a community. Hymes’s concept supports contextual learning and assessment while requiring attention to variation, legitimate dissent, and the power to define whose communication counts as competent.
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- CategoryConcepts & Constructs
- DomainConversation & Relationships
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Concepts & Constructs
Delimits an entity, property, relation or condition relevant to understanding communication. Its principal contribution is to clarify what something means, which features constitute it, and how to recognize or distinguish it.