“Oh, what tangled webs we weave”;: Concerns about current conceptions of communication competence

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• Judy C. Pearson is Professor of Interpersonal Communication and Tom D. Daniels is Associate Professor of Interpersonal Communication at Ohio University. An earlier version of this article was presented at the Central States Speech Association Conference.
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