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Communicative competence is knowing which expressions can be used under what circumstances to convey which meanings.

Diversity is the adaptation of varieties of language into one another. It is at once a human problem and a human resource.

The Ethnography of speaking is a development of anthropological linguistics first formalized by dell hymes in the early 1960s that studies how language is used in its cultural context: The social nature of discourse.

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Linguistic anthropology is distinguished from 'anthropological linguistics' to draw attention to the field's grounding in anthropology.

A Speech community is a community sharing rules for the conduct and interpretation of speech.