communicative competence

noun

Definitions

  1. A language user's grammatical knowledge of syntax, morphology, phonology and the like, as…

    A language user's grammatical knowledge of syntax, morphology, phonology and the like, as well as social knowledge about how and when to use utterances appropriately.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for communicative competence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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