The study of language functions

The study of language functions

1. Language fuctions

   • Semantic relationships
     • Meaningful relationships that a child possesses about his or her world
   • Problems with acquiring basic semantic relationships
     • Lack of language development affects the social
   • Extended semantic relationships
     • Social intention
       • The child’s non-verbal and verbal acts combine to create a social intention
     • Preoperational cognition
       • The child’s use of language for cognitive and social function is important to consider.

2. Expanded lenguage functions

   • Displacement
     • Referring to others and their actions in the here-and-now to referring to acts that are not seen or touched is another type of language function.
   • 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 problem solve provides
   • Productivity
     • The language user has more than one way to use language production
   • Redundancy
     • Try to use more words to convey a particular meaning
   • Concrete congnition
     • These complex concepts increase the language functions of displacement, semanticity, flexibility, productivity, and redundancy
   • Speech acts
     • Include the rules for the context, verbal and non-verbal characteristics of the speaker’s utterance, and the effects on 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.