From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri 01 Nov 2002 - 22:34:25 GMT
>
> On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 03:49 , joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
>
> > To phrase it in Chomskyan terms, there is a distinction between
> > language performance and language competence. Language performance
> > is found in each instance of verbal discourse, and can only reflect
> > a part of the whole, which is the individual's language competence,
> > i. e. the internally stored knowledge of vocabulary, definitions,
> > semantics and syntax which comprise the individual's command of the
> > language/symbol system, and upon which the individual draws to
> > engage in each language performance.
>
> And that is a lovely paraphrase of the pemetic model, which states
> that there is enough distinction between competence and performance to
> call them two different things, and claims that only one of them,
> performance, is the unit of cultural transmission necessary for, and
> demanded by, memetic theory.
>
No, because in the absence of competence, ther can be no
performance. And they are different, but related, in the sense of
common cause of multople differing yret similar effects; in other words,
as type (english, french, etc.) to tokens (instances of discourse).
>
> - Wade
>
>
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