What is Linguistic Performance?

Linguistic performance is one of the two elements in Chomsky's performance/competence distinction. It relates to Language production (parole), with an emphasis upon how this is different from Competence, or the mental knowledge of language itself.


Language Production: In linguistics, language production is the production of spoken or written language. It describes all of the stages between having a concept, and translating that concept into linguistic form

Linguistic Competence: Linguistic competence is defined as a speaker-hearer’s ability to speak and understand language in a grammatically-correct manner [1]. It is one of the two elements in Chomsky's performance/competence distinction. Linguistic competence is an area of study in the field of intercultural communication founded by the linguist Noam Chomsky. Linguistic competence is the use of grammatical rules of a language, whereas communicative competence is the use of social language rules. This broader knowledge to communicate successfully within the norms of a culture’s language was introduced by the linguist Dell Hymes. Dell Hymes expanded on Noam Chomsky’s view of linguistic competence by considering the social factors of the culture’s language.



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