<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Drawing on the ideas of many pragmatically based philosophers of language and linguistics, the author proposes a conception of command of language with regard to linguistic cultivation of language users. His approach to the problem may be summarized in the sentence that the cultivation of the mother tongue is adequate when it is in harmony with communicative rationality that originated from the fact that human beings are behavioural-actional creatures. The main point is that the rationality of communication is based on the function of the intention-emergent-mechanism; that is, we are in natural linguistic state if the working of this mechanism is not disturbed. The cultivation of command of language can only be successful as the developing of the natural linguistic state when the requirement of the natural coordination of the behavioural and actional linguistic competence remains in force, in other words, it is necessary to take into consideration that for the natural command of language is responsible the interplay of the not-knowledge-based grammatical disposition and the language knowledges.</p></abstract>

Drawing on the ideas of many pragmatically based philosophers of language and linguistics, the author proposes a conception of command of language with regard to linguistic cultivation of language users. His approach to the problem may be summarized in the sentence that the cultivation of the mother tongue is adequate when it is in harmony with communicative rationality that originated from the fact that human beings are behavioural-actional creatures. The main point is that the rationality of communication is based on the function of the intention-emergent-mechanism; that is, we are in natural linguistic state if the working of this mechanism is not disturbed. The cultivation of command of language can only be successful as the developing of the natural linguistic state when the requirement of the natural coordination of the behavioural and actional linguistic competence remains in force, in other words, it is necessary to take into consideration that for the natural command of language is responsible the interplay of the not-knowledge-based grammatical disposition and the language knowledges.

Linguistic knowledge and command of language

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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Drawing on the ideas of many pragmatically based philosophers of language and linguistics, the author proposes a conception of command of language with regard...

Linguistic knowledge and command of language

Publicado en línea: 01 sept 2018

Páginas: 77 - 89

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2018-0013

Palabras clave
command of language, cultivation, communicative rationality, linguistic knowledge, not-knowledge-based-grammatical disposition

© 2018 Juraj Dolník, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Linguistic knowledge and command of language

Publicado en línea: 01 sept 2018

Páginas: 77 - 89

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2018-0013

Palabras clavecommand of language, cultivation, communicative rationality, linguistic knowledge, not-knowledge-based-grammatical disposition

© 2018 Juraj Dolník, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Palabras clave
command of language, cultivation, communicative rationality, linguistic knowledge, not-knowledge-based-grammatical disposition