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Short Introduction to English Grammar by Robert Lowth's
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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Behaviourism
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Jackobson's functions of language
in emotive, conative, referential, poetic, metalinguistic and phatic -
Speech Act Theory
By Austin and later Searle -
Austin's How To DO Things With Words
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Theory of Syntax by Chomsky
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Selinker creates the term Interlanguage
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Shift towards functional communcative syllabi
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Campbell and Wales criticise Chomsky's doctrine of innate ideas
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Hymes coins the term "Communicative Competence"
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Halliday rejects the dichotomy competence-performance
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Grice's maxims
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The Council of Europe establishes The Threshold Level
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Goffman's universal constraints
openings, closings, back-channel signals, turnover signals, bracket signals and preempt signals -
Searle classificated the illocutionary acts
into directives, commissives, representatives, expressives and declaratives -
Widdowson distinguishes between usage and use
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Canale and Swain defines the term CC
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Canale proposes 4 components of CC
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CEF classifies the CC's competences into levels of proficiency
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Kramsch introduces the concept of intercultural competence