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I would say that an interpreter has a very well developed communiative competence. The definition of communicative competence being that we create meaning in utterances in many different communication...
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The total opposite of structural language theories (such as Saussure) are functional language theories. Here represented first and foremost by Michael Halliday. Halliday is the father of SFL, systemic...
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Conventions in language is an unconcious or at least covert agreement between the speakers of a language of the links between words and morphemes and their meaningful contents. The links are mostly...
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