Discourse analysis
- 1. COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE NOAM CHOMSKY - GENERATIVE MODEL Students: Valentina Espinosa - Miguel Sanhueza - Gonzalo Vega Course: Discourse Analysis Date: April 24th 2017
- 2. WHAT IS COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE? The term “communicative competence” is comprised of two words, the combination of which means “competence to communicate”
- 3. NOAM CHOMSKY USA Linguist and author of the Universal grammar, contrary to behaviorism theories, he establishes that language acquisition is an inherent competence where every human since they born have the capacity to acquire linguistic knowledge. This ability, which Chomsky called the language acquisition device (LAD) provides the basis to assimilate the structure of a language.
- 4. Communicative Competence Communicative According to Chomsky, “competence” is the monolingual speaker-listener’s knowledge of language” Performance According to Chomsky, Performance is “the actual use of language in real situations”.
- 5. COMPETENCE Chomsky introduced this concept through his generative grammar theory and contrasts it from competence as elements of the linguistic competence. Competence refer to… • subconscious ability and the ideal language capacity in the area of grammar, who knows its language perfectly and is unaffected by such grammatically irrelevant conditions. Memory Limitations Distractions Errors Shift of attention and interest
- 6. PERFORMANCE Whereas competence refers to the potential knowledge in the language that a speaker-learner holds, the performance is the actual production of the language in a real situation. Chomsky highlights that performance… • does not consider any potential or capacity in the speaker/learner it is affected by possible grammar It is not affected by necessary conditions.
- 7. TRANSFORMATIONAL - GENERATIVE GRAMMAR MODEL It generates grammatically correct sentences of a language since it is meant to create the rules and principles which are in the mind or brain of a native speaker. These rules and principles are, by definition, about the language itself. Chomsky believed that grammar has recursive rules allowing one to generate grammatically correct sentences over and over.
- 8. EXAMPLES Grammatically correct: •“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” Grammatically incorrect •“Girl the bit apple the”
- 9. REFERENCES Chomsky, N. (1986). Knowledge of language: Its nature, origin, and use. Greenwood Publishing Group. Chomsky, N. (2014). Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (Vol. 11). MIT press. Searle, J. R. (1974). Chomsky's revolution in linguistics (Vol. 18, pp. 12-29). New York Review of Books. De Villiers, J. G., & De Villiers, P. A. (1974). Competence and performance in child language: Are children really competent to judge?. Journal of Child Language, 1(01), 11-22.