Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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... Communicative competence It is , in fact , quite clear that all speakers vary their language very extensively according to situation ; there are , as Labov has pointed out , no single ... communicative competence Communicative competence.
... Communicative competence It is , in fact , quite clear that all speakers vary their language very extensively according to situation ; there are , as Labov has pointed out , no single ... communicative competence Communicative competence.
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... communicative competence . The totality of styles ( both spoken and written ) available to a community is known as its linguistic repertoire , and speakers learn to select from this repertoire in order to fill various communicative ...
... communicative competence . The totality of styles ( both spoken and written ) available to a community is known as its linguistic repertoire , and speakers learn to select from this repertoire in order to fill various communicative ...
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... communicative competence should , if they are to be equitable , be based on a much wider notion of ' language ability ' than is customary . All the linguistic research which has been carried out into the nature of communicative ...
... communicative competence should , if they are to be equitable , be based on a much wider notion of ' language ability ' than is customary . All the linguistic research which has been carried out into the nature of communicative ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
Copyright | |
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