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Answer the questions:

1. The issue is not whether a piece of language is grammatically or lexically


well formed as a sentence or not but how far it is pragmatically effective
as an act of communication. Explain.
2. The illocutionary force of promise, or advice, or anything else, will again
depend on the context of knowledge and assumption that the speaker
assumes to be shared. Explain.
3. What is the difference between linguistic competence and
communicative competence? Give an example.
4. Hymes identifies the possible, the feasible, the appropriate, and the
performed as four distinct aspects of communicative competence, and in
the analysis in use we can focus attention on any one of them. Explain
what is focused on in each of them.

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