Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The study of Language Functions
- Definition
- allow a human to create a variety of
cultural identities unique to the products
of the human language learning system
such as economic or political systems
and rule-governed societies (e.g., Dance,
1985)
- Socio cognitive process
- similar structures the functions are different
- Semantic Relationship for language to think
- consists of the meaning of those
relationships about people, their
actions, and their objects within
a context or setting
- Connect the child's world to his
world and this world to the
child's thinking
- AGENCY: basic function of early
language acquisition
- AGENT: the performs and action in
relationship to the object
- Concrete Levels of thinking
- A child who cannot receive the sensory input of spoken patterns
ay not develop the concepts easily
- When the meaning of a basic semantic relationship expands,
then the child develops higher thinking
- Expanded Language Functions
- These expanded language functions move a
child’s communication from the here-and-now to
ideas that span time and place
- speaker can talk about ideas that cannot be seen
- begin as soon as a child’s cognitive development
begins with the sensory input developing into
patterns that form systems of concepts
- The child is learning that language functions as a form
of displacement
- DISPLACEMENT
- acts that are not seen or touched is another type of language
function called displacement
- Semanticity
- Flexibility
- Productivity
- Redundacy
- Extended Language Functions
- child who is still acquiring a plethora of
sensory patterns and is organizing these
patterns into lots of meanings.
- The act of referring is a language function
- These pragmatic acts often express social intentions.
- Social Intentions
- Some of the social intentions for representing thinking
through language functions include, greeting, rejecting,
denying, existing, negating, and requesting.
- The child expresses an intention or semantic meaning of
concepts that are social and therefore pragmatic in nature
- Preoperational cognition
- The child is learning more about how to
relate to others
- the child is learning sentence structures
- Thinking and Speech acts
- These conversational language
functions or speech acts include the
rules for the context, verbal and
non-verbal characteristics of the
speaker’s utterance
- The most complex type of language function occurs in a debate
where two or more speakers are using a multitude of very
sophisticated speech acts
- The ability to understand spoken language so as to
multi-task or follow through with an assignment
are all products of a language user’s ability to
predicate cognitively