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‘Simple Codes’ and the Source of the Second Language Learner's Initial Heuristic Hypothesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

S. P. Corder
S. P. Corder
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University of Edinburgh
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Linguistic theory must be sufficiently rich and comprehensive to be able to account for the structure of the most complex or elaborate manifestation of language. In consequence any structurally less complex verbal behaviour is typically explained as a use of some ‘reduced’ or ‘simplified’ code or register. Many languages, if not all, are said to possess such reduced registers and it is said to be part of a native speaker's competence to be able to use such ‘reduced registers’ where appropriate. It is part of his total communicative competence to know when it is appropriate to use such registers. These reduced or simplified registers are associated with more or less well defined situations of language use or types of discourse. Telegraphese is obviously restricted by the medium of transmission as well as the restricted range of communicative functions it is used for, e.g. orders, reports and announcements of plans. Technical description in botanical and ornithological reference books have a purely referential function, while the so-called language of instructions has clearly restricted rhetorical functions.

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Research Article
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Fall 1978 , pp. 1 - 10
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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