„The speaking is part of an activity, or of a form of life”.
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„Mówienie jest częścią pewnej działalności, pewnego sposobu życia”. O kompetencji lingwistycznej jako kompetencji gier językowych
„The speaking is part of an activity, or of a form of life”. Language Competence as Language Games Competence

Author(s): Jacek Szczepaniak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: competence; performance; mediality; language game

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents one of the possibilities of a new view at the notion of linguisticcompetence based on the concept of language games by Ludwig Wittgenstein. In contrastto “mental” perception of language competence as universal grammar encoded in genome, itunderlines the importance of performativity and mediality. The understanding of a messagecontent refers necessarily to how we use words in specific language games and how we copewith various sign systems and media spaces.The concept of language games competence proposed by a German researcher JanGeorg Schneider is based on the latest, culture related research concerning mediality issues(including in particular transcriptivity as presented by Ludwig Jäger), performativity andtheory of language.

  • Issue Year: 1/2013
  • Issue No: XV
  • Page Range: 191-200
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish