Questão
ID 1706074Disciplina: Língua Inglesa
Assunto: Coesão e Coerência | Cohesion And Coherence
Ano: 2018 Banca: AMEOSC - Associação dos Municípios do Extremo Oeste de Santa Catarina Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de Iporã do Oeste
Read the fragment below.
The Rule-Governed Nature of Language
I - Language consists of signs occurring not in a random collection, but in a system. A system consists of smaller units which stand in relation to each other and perform particular functions.
II - These smaller units are organized on certain principles, or rules. For this reason, language is said to be rule-governed.
III - The rules of a language, or its underlying system, are inferable from the observable patterns of the language. This underlying system constitutes what is called grammatical competence, which is part of native speakers’ implicit knowledge, their “internalized grammar”.
IV - While grammatical competence is complete and perfect, it should be remembered that speakers’ actual use of language, what is called performance, may be quite complete and perfect as well.
(Brinton, Laurel J., The Structure of Modern English)
Observing the context above, identify the correct option.