LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

1. Socio-cognitive processes of the human's Neuro Semantic Language Learning System

   • Developmental patterns of language strucutures
     • Words, sounds, morphemes, sentences, parts of speech, sentence order sentence structures, vocabulary
   • Semantic relationships
     • They function to connect the speaker to his or her world
       • Socially
         • The elationship to the environment
         • The child is an agent
           • The performance of an action in relationship to the object
             • agent + action + object
         • Social intentions
           • Greeting
           • Rejecting
           • Exixting
           • Requesting
           • Negating
           • Denying
       • Cognitively
         • The relationship between thinking, and objects in the world
         • Extended language functions
           • Connection literally and physically to the world's surface
             • Expanded language functions
               • They allow to develop higher thinking and therefore more acceptable social behavior
                 • Referring
                   • It allows a speaker to be more specific about the message he wants to convey
                 • Displacement
                   • It begins early on and continues to expand thorughout a person's thinking
                     • Semanticity
                     • Flexibility
                     • Productivity
                     • Redundancy
                   • The meaning of basic relationships og agent + action + object increases through
                     • Neuro-semantic processes
                       • Overlapping
                       • Layering
                       • They form more complex concepts
                         • Preoperational thinking
                           • It increases the speaker thinking in the here-and-now
                         • Concrete thinking
                           • It allows speaker be able to think in the rules of social expectations
   • Conversational speech acts
     • Rules for the context
     • Verbal and nonverbal characteristics of the speaker's utterance
     • Effects on the listener
     • Simple
       • Request
       • Statement of information
     • Complex
       • Debate
     • Auditory proposition
       • When two or more arguments are further predicated
     • Predication
       • Connection between one argument that refers to a previous utterance and another argument