LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

1. Structures

   • Words
   • Sounds
   • Morphemes
   • Phonemes
   • Sentences
     • Order
     • Structure
   • Parts of speech
   • Vocabulary

2. Semantic Relationships

   • They help the development of the child socially and cognitively.
     • The basic semantic relationships is agent + action + object.
   • Problems
     • The lack of language development
     • The lack of social and cognitive development

3. Social Intentions

   • Purpose for communicating with someone else
     • Social intentions for representing thinking through language functions
       • Greeting
         • Hi, grandma; come to play.
       • Rejecting
         • No, cousin, I can´t come into. I´m very sick
       • Denying
         • No, Liz, don´t come here. I´m tired.
       • Existing
         • Existing laws allow the use of reasonable force
       • Requesting
         • No, mom, don´t come in here. Don´t look

4. The expanded language functions

   • They allow to talk about ideas that can not be seen
     • Displacement
       • Begins early on and continues to expand throughout a person´s thinking
     • Semanticity
       • Concepts increase in complexity from the overlapping and layering of meaning
     • Flexibility
       • Concepts can be used in a variety of ways and communcation with others takes on more variety.
     • Productivity
       • Concepts mean similar ideas whether they are in spoken or written form
     • Redundancy
       • Concepts increase in meaning to them point where they must become a new concept

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