A Study on Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Communicative Competence

Ha, Young Ryei

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Commun Sci Disord. 2002;7(1): 81-101.

Young Ryei Ha^`

하영례(Young Ryei Ha)

ABSTRACT

Communicative competence research requires a multidisciplinary per spective. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate what can be learned from multiple-perspective analysis of communicative competence (ethnography of communication, child language and psycholinguistics, social psychology, sociology, and pragmatics) in studying play. From ethnography of communication, a better under standing of communicative competence can be derived: children are aware of the variety of rules associated with producing, predicting, and interpreting; children are capable of integrating language with other component s involved in its use. From child language and psycholinguistics, we see that children are capable of formulating a theory of the structure of language which results in the infinite sentences they can produce and under stand; children are capable of creative generalizing about language. From social psychology, we see that children are capable of communicating intentions through variations in features of communicative style; children are capable of using a range of per suasion strategies to present oneself in relation to other s. From sociology, we see that children have the capacity for applying acceptable strategies of sequential ordering; children acquire resources for converting information from the setting into guides on how to generate socially accepted behaviors and account s. From pragmatics, we see that children have the competence of performing the ideational function, interpersonal function, and textual function of language. These findings contribute to the understanding of the complex aspects of children s communicative competence.

Keywords: 다학문접근 | 의사소통능력 | 언어병리학