We thus make a fundamental distinction between the competence (the speaker-hearer's knowledge of his language) and performance (th
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When I was a boy, I had a clock with a pendulum that could be lifted off. I found that the clock went very much faster without the
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We are thus able to distinguish thinking as the function which is to a large extent linguistic.
A good performance, like a human life, is a temporal affair--a process in time. It is good as a whole through being good in its pa
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Art to me was a state, it didn't need to be an accomplishment. By any of the standards of production, achievement, performance, I
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue
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"Theater of cruelty" means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the
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Analogies between the stage and the screen assume that they deal with the same material. But they don't. The material of the scree
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignobl
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Jane Hudson: Bravo.
Rosano Brazzi: Grazie.
Jane Hudson: Prego. That about concludes my entire performance in Italian.
Rosano Brazzi: Grazie.
Jane Hudson: Prego. That about concludes my entire performance in Italian.
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