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Communicative Competence, Pragmatic Functions, and Accommodation.
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Stalker, James C. – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Current research supports the notion that language users make both unconscious and conscious choices when accommodating their language for public use, incorporating regional and social distinctions as well as notions of correctness and acceptability. Such decisions occur at the level of communicative competence and become part of the communicative…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialects, Language Attitudes