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