Part of
Handbook of Pragmatics: 26th Annual InstallmentEdited by Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Frank Brisard
[Handbook of Pragmatics 26] 2023
► pp. 47–66
Edited by Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Frank Brisard
[Handbook of Pragmatics 26] 2023
► pp. 47–66
Dell Hymes and communicative competence
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Biography and career
- 3.Communicative competence
- 4.Communicative competence and pragmatics
- 5.Hymes’ own explorations of communicative competence
- 6.Continuing influence and recognition
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