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Spitzberg, Brian H. – 1981
The construct of competence in interpersonal communication is conceptually refined in this paper, which first provides an extensive review and evaluation of the conceptual and empirical literature concerning competence and discusses a new taxonomy of competence constructs. The paper then offers a three-component model of relational competence that…
Descriptors: Classification, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Evaluation Criteria

Blum, Shoshana; Levenston, Eddie – 1977
In a recent paper (1977) Levenston and Blum suggested that lexical simplification operates according to universal principles, and that these derive from the individual's semantic competence in his mother tongue. This paper examines the validity of this suggestion by means of a comparative study of lexical simplification in three different…
Descriptors: Classification, Hebrew, Interlanguage, Language Instruction