The Linguist and Discourse

The new interest in the discourse level of language has opened broad avenues of interdisciplinary research, despite some reluctance to see it as involving other areas of knowledge. It is customary to divide the labor between 'pure linguistics' & extralinguistic studies such as rhetoric...

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Published in:Langages (Paris) 1977-03, Vol.11 (45), p.112-126
Main Author: Kuentz, Pierre
Format: Article
Language:fre
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Summary:The new interest in the discourse level of language has opened broad avenues of interdisciplinary research, despite some reluctance to see it as involving other areas of knowledge. It is customary to divide the labor between 'pure linguistics' & extralinguistic studies such as rhetoric & stylistics, to preserve traditionally clear delineations. Facts are gathered to give a theory which in turn reproduces the facts--a circular means of reasoning. (This is a necessary part of a theory divorced from pragmatic concerns.) However, methodology has already expanded its realm, changing in practice the notion of competence vs performance to better suit a discursive orientation. To adjust linguistic theory to a new level of discourse analysis, it is necessary to re-examine the theoretical concepts of competence & performance, taking into account the notion of 'utterance' & the orientation that perceptual strategies can give. T. Lamb
ISSN:0458-726X