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Communicative Competence

 * Yes and it seems like they defined communicative competence and then went off into a bunch of different topics.


 * It seems like it is against Chomsky distinction between competence and performance.


 * The citations link to books, but it seems to link to the correct book.
 * The references were from the 1960s. It is out of date.

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 * It's rated start-class on quality scale, high importance on important scale.

Phatic Expression
by language > Phatic Expression in Other Languages
 * Add/develop on the history of the usage of phatic expressions in English and possibly other languages.
 * Change the headings-- understanding > Usage
 * Extend the "by language" subsection. Add more information from the articles that are referenced and find their sources. Find examples/importance of phatic expression in the culture or language.

Peer-Review
This article is going to need plenty of work, but the suggestions you gave are a good start to improve both the content and article styling. Since it's so threadbare I suggest just focusing on English phatic expressions. Besides the examples given think of other social settings where collectively everyone knows what to do or say without really being told. These are the things that are culturally bound and foreigners might not know until they are told. For example, (and this is something I do and have seen others do) is walking in front of someone either in the store or somewhere else where I just need to cross their path/block line of sight I say "excuse me" and the other responds in either an "Mmh" or a "no problem". I'm not doing anything wrong going in front of them, but it's so ingrained it just happens. The same with when someone sneezes. Everyone around automatically says something without thinking, but they don't really mean to bless the individual in a religious sense! I would suggest looking into sociolinguistics to help with this article and definitely ask the department librarian if you can't find the information your looking for. CA108017 (talk) 05:24, 4 March 2018 (UTC)