The document discusses communicative competence and its related concepts. It begins by defining communicative competence based on Chomsky's distinction between competence and performance. Hymes later expanded on this idea by arguing that communicative competence involves sociocultural factors and the ability to convey and interpret messages within specific contexts. The document then discusses basic interpersonal communicative skills versus cognitive/academic language proficiency. It also covers the different components of communicative competence including grammatical, sociolinguistic, discourse, strategic, and organizational competence. The document goes on to define language functions and pragmatic concepts such as locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts. It also discusses notions related to pragmatics, discourse analysis,