communicative competence
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
communicative competence (countable and uncountable, plural communicative competences)
- (sociolinguistics) 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.
- Hyponym: strategic competence
Translations[edit]
language user's knowledge
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