Langue and

parole
 what is langue?

langue (system, competence) is a

set of interiorized rules of a
language that constitute our
capacity to produce messages in
a certain language. Abstract,
unconscious competence shared
by all members of the linguistic
community
 what is parole?

Et toi,
comme ça ?
Individual linguistic act, a
ça va ? concrete realization of a
message in a particular
language.
 their authors are
B.F. Skinner
"Language is a mentalistic and unscientific
abstraction. His work on verbal behavior is
an attempt to account for all linguistic
activities entirely within terms of overt and
observable events without any appeal to an
¨inderlying system"
Noam Chomsky Ferdinand de Saussure
"The task of linguistics is the "He defines linguistics as the study of language
and as the study of the manifestations of human
study competence, the
speech. He says that linguistics is also concerned
knowledge of the language or
with the history of languages, and with the social
¨the underlying system of rules
or cultural influences that shape the
that has been mastered by the development of language"
speaker-hearer¨
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