realized in characteristic of disposition material entity linguistic concretization-utilization process linguistic concretization-interpretation process linguistic competence A disposition that inheres in some material entity and is such that that, if realized, it is realized by either some linguistic concretization-utilization process or some linguistic concretization-interpretation process. Mathias Brochhausen Matthew Diller S. Clint Dowland When realized in a concretization-utilization process, the only relevant concretization may in some cases be a cognitive one, but that suffices to realize a linguistic competence. For example, suppose one begins to write a letter, planning out the words ahead of time, but is interrupted before beginning to write and never resumes. During the process of planning out the words and what one intends to communicate, one is already concretizing words cognitively, as well as considering which combinations of words one can use to concretize additional generically dependent continuants. In doing so, one performs processes that realize one's linguistic competence, without producing any concretizations other than those cognitive ones. William R. Hogan