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Pragmatic Competence

Pragmatic Competence is a component of communicative competence that specifically entails the ability to use language appropriately in different sociocultural contexts by understanding and producing utterances according to contextual factors such as speaker intention, social norms, and conversational rules.

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Communicative competence : Some roles of comprehensible input and comprehensible output in its development

Merril Swain · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1985 · 2.9K citations

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Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena

Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson · Max Planck Digital Library · 1978 · 2.2K citations

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Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Failure

J. THOMAS · Applied Linguistics · 1983 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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From communicative competence to communicative language pedagogy

Michael Canale · Language & Communication · 2014 · 1.6K citations

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Explanatory and Pragmatic Attitudes in Therapeutical Trials

Daniel Schwartz, J Lellouch · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology · 2009 · 1.3K citations

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  1. NT
    Naoko Taguchi

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    30 publications · 2.3K citations

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  2. KB
    Kathleen Bardovi‐Harlig

    Indiana University, United States

    22 publications · 3.5K citations

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    Gabriele Kasper

    University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, United States

    17 publications · 2.5K citations

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  4. FM
    Francesca M. Bosco

    University of Turin, Italy

    14 publications · 643 citations

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  5. EA
    Eva Alcón Soler

    Universitat Jaume I, Spain

    12 publications · 832 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    24 h-index

    39 publications

    2.6K citations

  2. Universitat Jaume I

    Castellon, Spain

    21 h-index

    36 publications

    2.2K citations

  3. Google (United States)

    Mountain View, United States

    20 h-index

    60 publications

    5.2K citations

  4. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    15 h-index

    24 publications

    5.7K citations

  5. University of Oulu

    Oulu, Finland

    14 h-index

    25 publications

    1.1K citations

  6. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    14 h-index

    23 publications

    2.2K citations

  7. Indiana University

    Bloomington, United States

    14 h-index

    20 publications

    3.5K citations

  8. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    13 h-index

    22 publications

    1.4K citations

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  1. Journal of Pragmatics

    168 publications · 14.2K citations

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  2. Modern Language Journal

    MLJ · 37 publications · 3.3K citations

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  3. System

    37 publications · 2.9K citations

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  4. Intercultural Pragmatics

    43 publications · 2.5K citations

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  5. Journal of Child Language

    29 publications · 2.3K citations

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