Linguistic Acceptability

Abstract: This article is about linguistic acceptability, and in this article, linguistic acceptability is treated as a synonym of textual acceptability. This article has as fundamental objective to understand the factors that contribute to the establishment of linguistic acceptability, and to continue this study, the starting question was the following: What are the factors that contribute to the establishment of linguistic acceptability? Therefore, to answer this question, the line of bibliographical research was adopted as a methodology in order to understand the different perspectives linked to this theme in order to understand and comprehend the determining conditions that contribute to textual acceptability in a given communicative event. In this way, it is understood that this article can substantially contribute to raising awareness among potential speakers of a language about the essential criteria that guarantee textual acceptability, but also about its relevance in the language teaching and learning process. Thus, in view of the above, it is concluded that textual acceptability is characterized by the ability of the receiver to attribute a certain meaning to the linguistic sequences produced by his interlocutor, there are several criteria that must be mobilized, relevant for example for linguistic knowledge, sociolinguistic knowledge and pragmatic knowledge, that is, the learner of a given language must simultaneously master linguistic conventions and sociocultural conventions on the use of language within the speaking community