Linguistic Act
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A Linguistic Act is a generation act of a linguistic task (to produce linguistic expressions).
- AKA: Linguistic Performance.
- Context:
- It can (typically) be a Communication Act.
- Example(s):
- a Reading Act, a Writing Act.
- a Listening Act, a Speaking Act.
- See: Linguistic Agent, Linguistic Competence, Language Production, Speech Error.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/linguistic_performance Retrieved:2015-5-31.
- The term linguistic performance was used by Noam Chomsky in 1960 to describe “the actual use of language in concrete situations”. [1] It is used to describe both the production, sometimes called parole [2], as well as the comprehension of language.[2] Performance is defined in opposition to “competence”; the latter describes the mental knowledge that a speaker or listener has of language. Part of the motivation for the distinction between performance and competence comes from speech errors: despite having a perfect understanding of the correct forms, a speaker of a language may unintentionally produce incorrect forms. This is because performance occurs in real situations, and so is subject to many non-linguistic influences. For example, distractions or memory limitations can affect lexical retrieval (Chomsky 1965:3), and give rise to errors in both production and perception [[3] ) or distractions. Such non-linguistic factors are completely independent of the actual knowledge of language, Noam Chomsky.(2006).Language and Mind Third Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-85819-4 </ref> and establish that speakers' knowledge of language (their competence) is distinct form their actual use of language (their performance).
- ↑ Matthews, P. H. “performance." Oxford Reference. 30 Oct. 2014. http://www.oxfordreference.com.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/view/10.1093/acref/9780199202720.001.0001/acref-9780199202720-e-2494.
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2009
- (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=linguistic%20performance
- S: (n) linguistic performance ((linguistics) a speaker's actual use of language in real situations; what the speaker actually says, including grammatical errors and other non-linguistic features such as hesitations and other disfluencies (contrasted with linguistic competence))