Zusammenfassung der Ressource
THE STUDY OF
LANGUAGE
FUNCTIONS
- language includes the function of thinking
- Language functions
- The learner acquires basic relationships
- Semantic relationships
- agent + action + object
- Agent: The person, animal or
thing performs an action in
relationship to the object
- The social component
- as an agent in relationship
to his or her own
environment
- The cognitive component
- learn to think about his or her world
- Extended semantic relationships
- expansions allow the
child to use language to
“refer"
- allows a speaker to be specific
about the message.
- language also represents a learner’s social and
cognitive development
- Expanded language functions
- child’s communication
- begin as soon as a child’s cognitive development begins with
the sensory input developing into patterns
- Displacement
- acts that are not seen or touched
- their actions and objects that are no longer in the
here-and-now helps develop the cognitive function
- Semanticity
- increases over the life of
a person
- More complex meanings
- Flexibility
- are able to think with maximum
levels of language functions
- Alternative options
- Productivity
- students who cannot process sound into speech can
learn concepts through the adult assigning meaning
through writing rather than speaking
- Redundancy
- the speaker may try to use
more words to convey a
particular meaning
- say one idea over and over
- An increase in the concepts does
increase in the role of language
resulting in less external redundancy
- Speech acts
- rules for the context, verbal
and non-verbal
characteristics of the
speaker’s utterance
- Expanded speech acts
- Propositions are important
components of complex
expanded speech acts