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Discourse competence of speakers of Croatian as a foreign language

With the emergence of actual syntax, systemic functional theory and functional grammar by M. A. K. Halliday and text linguistics, the perspective on grammar changed and was directed from a text to a sentence. The focus was on knowledge that enables every speaker to connect linguistic elements of lower order into coherent written or spoken text. This knowledge is called discourse competence. This paper examines discourse competence of speakers of Croatian as a foreign language, i.e. its components ‒ cohesion and coherence ‒ that are realized through different lexical, grammatical and semantic elements. The analysis of discourse competence components will be conducted on the corpus of 34 texts written by non-native speakers whose knowledge of Croatian was assessed as B1 level.

text ; discourse ; linguistic competence ; discourse competence ; cohesion ; coherence

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