communicative competence

English

Noun

communicative competence (countable and uncountable, plural communicative competences)

  1. (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.

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