Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Study of Language Functions
- Language functions are the socio-cognitive processes of the human’s Neuro-Semantic Language Learning System.
The socio (social) piece is the way that a person uses language to communicate with and to other people. And, the
cognitive piece is the way a person thinks.
- Semantic relationships
- basis of language, for all speakers, for all languages, consists of the meaning of those
relationships about people, their actions, and their objects within a context or setting.
- Socially, children communicate about themselves in
relationship to their environment.
- Cognitively, children think only about the way
they act in relationship to the objects in their
world.
- These semantic relationships function to connect the
child to his or her world and the child’s world to the
child’s thinking.
- Language function
- These
structures
include:
- words
- sounds
- vocabulary
- morphemes
- phonemes
- sentences
- parts of speech
- sentence order
- sentence structures
- English speakers typically study
language from a structural
perspective
- Extended semantic relationships
- Changes by extension or restriction of meanings The specialization
law says that a generic word next to a specifying word becomes a
specified word. This fact is only possible in a certain social
environment. This law is related to the principle of economy of all
languages.
- Expanend language functions
- Displacement
- Refering their actions in the here -and-now to refering
to acts that are not seen or touched is another type of
language functions
- Speech acts
- Include the rules for the context verbal and non-verbal
characteristics of the speakers utterance and the effects and the
listener
- Expanden speech acts
- As speakers engage in discourse the language functions of the
speech acts generate more and more meaning for the speakers and
the listeners
- Redundancy
- Try to ise more words to convey a particular
meaning
- Concrete cognition
- These complex concepts increase the language functions of
displacement, semanticity, flexibility, productivity and
redundancy
- Semanticity
- complexity or semanticity increases over the life
of a person so concepts increase in meaning
and new meanings continue to develop
- Flexibility
- To use language to think about her options and to
problems solve provides
- Productivity
- The language user has more than one way to use
language production