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The argument presented in this paper attempts to awaken a discussion over competence viewed as a fundamental element of successful discourse. Since the image of both linguistic competence and communicative competence is somewhat narrowed being primarily focused on the knowledge of grammar, in the case of linguistic competence, and the ability to use this knowledge in the very act of communication...
Different traditions in various research circles and writing cultures cause that similarly sounding concepts and terms are frequently understood and interpreted in different ways. Even within the German Studies, we may notice considerable differences in understanding certain terminology. The term discourse serves as a good example as it is one of the most frequently occurring and passionately discussed...
Recent readings concerning discourse analysis, its aims, tasks and explicative potential support the thesis that there has been a lot of confusion around discourse analysis, especially around its subject scope. It seems that the confusion is mainly caused by lack of understanding of what it is that we refer to as "language" and how it exists. By ignoring the ontological answers concerning...
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