Competenceandperformance

1、made by-zoean important distinctions in linguisticscompetence and performance w competence: the ideal users knowledge of the rules of his language (語言語言能力能力)w performance: the actual use of language in concrete situations (語言運用語言運用)chomsky proposed by the american linguist n. chomsky (psychological)

2、differences between competence and performancecompetence performance it enables a speaker to produce and understand an indefinite(不確不確定的定的） number of sentences and to recognize grammatical mistakes and ambiguities; it is stable. performance is often influenced by psychological and social factors; it

3、 is not stable.w a speakers performance does not always match or equal his supposed competence. (e.g.:i finded a wonderful garden last sunday.)w chomsky believes that linguists ought to study competence, rather than performance. in other words, they should discover what an ideal speaker knows of his

4、 native language. saussure vs. chomskyw chomskys competence&performance distinction is also similar to f. de saussures langue-parole distinction, but we should make a comparison between them.langue-parolecompetence-performancelangue is a social product and a set of conventions(慣慣例例) for a communitycompetence is deemed（認認為為） as a property(性能性能) of the mind of each individualsaussure consider language from a sociological or sociolinguistic（社會語言學社會語言學家家） point of viewn. chomsky deal