Unit 1
Competence
(语言能力
):the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language
.Performance
(语言运用
):the actual use of language in concrete situations
.Arbitrariness
(符号特性
):there is no intrinsic connection between the word and the thing.
Productivity(creativity):
Language is resourceful because of its duality and its recursiveness. We can use it to create new meanings.
Duality
:The structural organization of language into two abstract levels:
meaningful units (e. g. words in written language) ...