linguistic performance
- noun
- /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk pərˈfɔːrməns/
- Specialized
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desempeño lingüístico
- The conference focused on various aspects of linguistic performance, including fluency, accuracy, and the use of non-verbal cues.
Examples
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A comparison of the phonological processes used by children with low, average, and high linguistic performance showed that phonotactic structure errors discriminated better than did system errors between the three groups.
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This fact is especially obvious in the typographical display of the text which, however "chaotic" or "decentralizing" it might appear to a reader, is far more than the documentation of a spontaneous linguistic performance.
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The ontological attitude of linguistic performance aspires to synthesize idea and reality in order to elucidate empirical phenomena in the light of higher transcendental principles.
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First of all, every act of linguistic performance pushes the barriers of language which, as Wittgenstein has pointed out, is the canvas or magnifying glass through which we perceive reality: "The limits of my language are the limits
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Autobiography can also profitably be read as documenting mental history in Starobinski's sense, i.e., as a linguistic performance struggling with the desires and basic challenges of its own historicity from a predominantly individual perspective.
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In urging that an idea either works or does not work for women, either secures belief and empowers women or does not, feminists acknowledge the challenge of revisability and/or reiteration of theoretical and linguistic performance.
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Teachers often assess students' linguistic performance by observing their speaking and writing abilities in everyday situations.
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Researchers conducted a study measuring the linguistic performance of bilingual speakers during casual conversations.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the performance of language use' is directly and compositionally derived from 'linguistic' (relating to language) + 'performance' (the execution or enactment of a task), so the overall sense is simply 'how someone uses language in practice.' This is a common, cross-linguistic noun + noun/adj + noun composition and a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the basic meaning (though the technical contrast with 'competence' is an advanced academic nuance).
Etymology
Linguistic performance uses the image of a stage show: the word performance makes us think of someone on stage, so we see how they speak, with mistakes, pauses, and nervousness. So linguistic performance means the 'actual use of language' in real life, not just the rules a person knows.