Linguistic Competence in Linguistic Theory

Abstract

This research aims to reveal linguistic competence as a central goal that linguistic theories seek to achieve and to understand its forms and meanings through a linguistic approach that examines the mechanisms, the production, and perception of linguistic structures. The research is based on the hypothesis that linguistic competence reflects the speaker's awareness of their linguistic ability, which is a measure of the language system and indicates the quality of the language and the strength of its roots as a system and set of rules, as well as revealing its relationship with other languages. Therefore, linguistic theories rely on it to explain linguistic phenomena and their rules, to ensure the accuracy of their description and their ability to interpret their issues and rules. Sufficiency is the basis that every linguistic theory strives to fulfill in its methodology, because it provides the linguistic data that linguists seek to study and analyze. It is a methodological indicator of the quality of language and the integrity of its perspective, because linguistic competence mentally controls grammatical structures in terms of construction and evaluation