Open AccessIdentifying Linguistic Competence What Linguistic Competence Consists in
Author(s) -
Jesús Martínez del Castillo
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
education and linguistics research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2377-1356
DOI - 10.5296/elr.v2i1.9225
Subject(s) - nothing , competence (human resources) , linguistics , linguistic competence , psychology , linguistic description , social psychology , epistemology , philosophy
Linguistic competence, language, a language and speech acts constitute realities to be found in speaking. They all are nothing but aspects of the same reality, the activity of speaking created and executed by human subjects who are free and creative, absolute and contingent, transcendent and historical. Since speaking is something known by speakers even before the performance what linguistic competence is can only be guessed out through self-reflection and verification of it in the verbal behavior of speakers.