Communicative Competence Quotes

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

For being able to use language was a critical skill that could carry one far. One could use it professionally, as a crafter of everything from political speeches to modern novels. One could use it personally, as a tool of discovery or a means of staying connected to others. One could use it as an outlet that would feed the artistic spirit of the creator, which existed in everyone.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

A man is as alive as he can communicate.

If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.

There's one thing that shows up on all of the lists of what makes us human: language. Our ability to share our thoughts and complex information with others far surpasses all the barks, squeaks and growls of our animal friends.

The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. When you communicate comfortably, regardless of what you're saying, it can always be processed.

A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.

I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.