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Noam Chomsky
"Linguistic theory focuses mainly on the ideal speaker-listener of a completely homogenous speaking community that knows their language perfectly and is not affected by irrelevant grammar conditions such as memory limitations, distractions, changes in attention and interest and mistakes when applying your knowledge of the language to the actual performance" -
Hymes
"He proposed the establishment of an approach that deals with investigating the rules of use of a language in its environment, that is, in the various socio-situational contexts in which verbal communication of a community takes place. This approach would have to account for the rules that shape the communicative competence of the members of that community". -
Halliday
"It establishes seven functions that exchange meaning and that is when people interact. (Instrumental), regulatory, interpersonal, heuristic, imaginative and representative". -
Canale y Swain
Communicative competence in the educational and professional field: They defined it as communicative competence in terms of three components.
• Grammar competence
• Socio-linguistic competence
• Strategic competence. -
Bachman
More effective use of skills related to the communicative use of language, nonverbal tasks, (musical composition, painting or solving mathematical equations. -
Bachman and Palmer
They propose a reorganization of meanings according to two different components: organizational and pragmatic. The first one has the grammatical and textual parts in which syntax, vocabulary, phonology, and orthography are essential and the second one highlights the heuristic, imagination and how they use the language to achieve the communication. -
Mauricio Pilleux
The communicative competence "It is our ability to interpret and properly use the social meaning of the linguistic varieties, from any circumstance, in relation to the functions and varieties of the language and with the cultural assumptions in the communication situation" -
Liliana Maria Maturana.
She defines as all of those skills and knowledge that a person has and allow them to interact in different contexts effectively including descriptive and prescriptive grammar, interaction, sociocultural context and control.
In others words: "Globalizing construct that encompasses the skills, abilities and knowledge that the language user must use to effectively interact in various social contexts."
