Lillis, T. M.
|DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link:||http://doi.org/10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/01275-X|
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“Communicative competence” was developed by Dell Hymes to describe, and account for, the knowledge that speakers and listeners have in order to communicate appropriately in different social contexts. It is a central notion in sociolinguistics and other socially oriented approaches to the study of language. This article aims to define the term as used by Hymes, discuss how it relates to other key concepts in sociolinguistics and to briefly explore extensions of this term into other domains. The article will conclude with a re-examination of this notion drawing on critical and post structuralist perspectives.
|Item Type:||Book Chapter|
|Keywords:||Appropriateness; Chomsky; Communicative competence; Diversity; Ethnography of communication; Hymes; Performance; Sociolinguistics; Speech community; Speech event;|
|Academic Unit/Department:||Education and Language Studies|
|Interdisciplinary Research Centre:||Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)
Language & Literacies
|Depositing User:||Wendy Hunt|
|Date Deposited:||27 Jul 2009 10:58|
|Last Modified:||09 Feb 2016 16:21|
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