Interactional Competence - crucial components of Communicative Competence (CC)

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Richard Young (2008, 2011) proposed that a number of crucial components of Communicative Competence (CC)

are appropriately subsumed under the term interactional competence.

What is it that enables us to engage in social interaction? The following abilities are adapted from Young (2011):

1. Participation framework: Identifying the participants in interaction, including gender, social class, status, familiarity, etc.

2. Register: Accounting for the context of the interaction in terms of style factors, including intimate, casual, deliberative, etc.

3. Selection of forms in modes of meaning: Choosing among linguistic (grammatical, lexical, rhetorical) options to create a desired meaning and effect.

4. Speech acts: Using appropriate forms to accomplish such purposes as requesting, answering, greeting, agreeing, disagreeing, etc.

5. Turn-taking: Following conventions of maintaining the floor, giving up the floor, selecting the next speaker, interrupting, etc.

6. Repair: Responding to misunderstandings, clarifying, requesting restatements, dealing with interactional “trouble.”

7. Boundaries: Distinguishing one topic from another, topic initiation and change, closing a topic, ending a conversation.