https://padlet.com/rabiakorkaman/commcompetence Today, our topic is communicative competence and its sociolinguistic origins that includes views of Saussure and Chomsky. en-us 2019-04-09 19:28:14 UTC 2025-09-24 04:14:19 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Folder.png rabiakorkaman https://padlet.com/rabiakorkaman/commcompetence/wish/350111406 Language is a system within systems. It is system of signs.

-Each of its systems such as phonology, morphology, syntax gives way to a larger system, all together make up the largest system of language.

-Saussure said that sign is composed of  a "signified" and a "signifier" and the relationship between them is arbitrary.

-Saussure also divided communicative competence into two part as "language" and "parole". Besides, he was only concerned with a language.

-Language means the linguistic knowledge of a language while parole means use of actual ability to use the language.

-Structualism is a theory of language, not parole.

-According to him, language is the same with every language user, it doesn’t change from person to person.  

]]> 2019-04-09 19:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rabiakorkaman/commcompetence/wish/350111406 rabiakorkaman https://padlet.com/rabiakorkaman/commcompetence/wish/350112314 -Chomskyan performance and saussurian parole are like synonyms.

-Competence, just like language, refers to the knowledge of language but it’s not the same.
The main difference between them is;

    Language for Saussure was limited and static knowledge of systems, which doesn’t change.

    For Chomsky, competence is not like that. For Chomsky, the knowledge of language is dynamic. For Chomsky, language is endless. You can create utterances and sentences in an endless way with different combinations. That’s why Transformative Generative Grammar is named as it is.

]]> 2019-04-09 19:34:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rabiakorkaman/commcompetence/wish/350112314 rabiakorkaman https://padlet.com/rabiakorkaman/commcompetence/wish/350114007 -Chomskyan linguistic theory is called Transformative Generative Grammar.

-He offered competence and performance distinction.

-Performance refers to the actual ability to use the languages, just like the saussurian parole. Almost the same.

-He also was not interested in performance.

-For Chomsky,  linguistic theory deals with the language of an ideal hearer-speaker, which is interprented to be native-speaker.

-Chomsky defined an ideal hearer-speaker as a person who lives in a homogeneous speech community (he says completely homogeneous speech community), which knows its language perfectly and unaffected by sociocultural and psycholinguistic issues.

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