LING 222 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Communicative Competence, Linguistic Competence, Sociolinguistics
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Ch 7: communicative development: learning to use language. Linguistic competence is the ability to produce and understand well-formed, meaningful sentences. Communicative competence is the ability to use those sentences appropriately in communicative interaction. Pragmatics: center premise of speech act theory which is largely the work of the philosophers of language and which has been influencing: according to this analysis of language, each sentence a speaker utters is a speech act. Intentionality: one of 3 components of speech acts. Intentionality: intentionality is relevant to the question of whether communication is taking place and indeed intentionality is not central to the concerns of some who study communication. Form-function mapping and the role of context: intended function of n utterance may be different from its form and its literal meaning. Speakers use a variety of different for the same function. Discourse: using language to communicate typically involves stretches of speech that are much longer than a single sentence.
