
Recent work in applied linguistics has expanded our understanding of the rule- governed nature of language. The concept of an idealized speaker -hearer whose linguistic competence is abstract and separate from reality has been enriched by the notion of an actual interlocutor...

Recent work in applied linguistics has expanded our understanding of the rule- governed nature of language. The concept of an idealized speaker -hearer whose linguistic competence is abstract and separate from reality has been enriched by the notion of an actual interlocutor...