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Discourse Competence

Discourse Competence is a component of communicative competence that encompasses the ability to produce and comprehend coherent and cohesive connected speech or writing in appropriate sociolinguistic contexts, distinguishing it from other subcompetences by its focus on language use beyond the sentence level.

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238

Contributing to Discourse

Herbert H. Clark, Edward F. Schaefer · Cognitive Science · 1989 · 1.5K citations · Full text

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“Sharing time”: Children's narrative styles and differential access to literacy

Sarah Michaels · Language in Society · 1981 · 886 citations

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Communicative Competence: A Pedagogically Motivated Model with Content Specifications

Marianne Celce‐Murcia, Zoltán Dörnyei, Sarah Thurrell · Issues in Applied Linguistics · 1995 · 814 citations · Full text

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Learning Discourse-level Diversity for Neural Dialog Models using Conditional Variational Autoencoders

Tiancheng Zhao, Ran Zhao, Maxine Eskénazi · 2017 · 711 citations · Full text

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<b>Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse</b> . Ed. by Jane H. Hill and Judith T. Irvine (Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language, 15.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. viii, 316. Cloth $59.95, paper $19.95.

Zdeněk Salzmann · Language · 1994 · 613 citations

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Authors

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    Pamela Snow

    La Trobe University, Australia

    4 publications · 177 citations

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    Jacinta Douglas

    La Trobe University, Australia

    3 publications · 133 citations

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    Sandrine Zufferey

    University of Bern, Switzerland

    3 publications · 70 citations

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  4. MC
    Marianne Celce‐Murcia

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    3 publications · 861 citations

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    Pascal Gygax

    University of Fribourg, Switzerland

    3 publications · 70 citations

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Institutions

229

  1. Google (United States)

    Mountain View, United States

    4 h-index

    15 publications

    1.5K citations

  2. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    56 citations

  3. La Trobe University

    Melbourne, Australia

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    329 citations

  4. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    414 citations

  5. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    320 citations

  6. Tel Aviv University

    Tel Aviv, Israel

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    230 citations

  7. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    130 citations

  8. University of Fribourg

    Fribourg, Switzerland

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    70 citations

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Venues

  1. English for Specific Purposes

    7 publications · 421 citations

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  2. Journal of Pragmatics

    5 publications · 317 citations

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  3. TESOL Quarterly

    5 publications · 912 citations

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  4. Aphasiology

    5 publications · 248 citations

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  5. Applied Linguistics

    5 publications · 633 citations

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