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Publication details [#12445]

Gumperz, John J. 1997. Communicative Competence. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 39–48.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative competence | language and society | linguistic competence | social context | sociolinguistics

Reprint of

Gumperz, John J. 1982. The Linguistic Bases of Communicative Competence. In

Annotation

This paper outlines the notion of communicative competence - knowledge of grammatical, social and cultural language rules that reflect the competences of actual speakers, and not those of idealized speakers à la Chomsky.