Expanded Language Functions

Expanded Language Functions

1. Social and cognitive developments acquired by a child learning to think critically and problem solve.

   • With the expanded language functions, a speaker can talk about ideas that cannot be seen
     • Displacement
       • Children acquire an adult grammar of language structures. Social intentions continue to expand and develop through a variety of language functions.
         • Overlapping and Layering
           • The increase in conceptual meaning occurs as a result of overlapping and layering the concepts within the Neuro-Semantic Language Learning System.
     • Semanticity
       • A child acquires the semantic features that become semantic relationships that represent concepts which overlap and layer to form more complex meanings.
     • Flexibility
       • Displacement and semanticity are types of expanded language functions that take the basics of an agent, action, and object and move the meaning into complex ideas across time and space. These language functions allow the speaker to be more flexible with language.
     • Redundancy
       • When a speaker continues to acquire meaning through the Neuro-Semantic Language Learning System, then the speaker may try to use more words to convey a particular meaning.
     • Concrete Cognition
       • Complex concepts increase the Expanded language functions from the child thinking in the here-and-now (preoperational thinking) to the child being able to think in the rules of societal expectations (concrete thinking).
     • Speech Acts
       • Reffers to the rules for the context, verbal and non-verbal characteristics of the speaker’s utterance, and the effects on the listener.
         • Expanded Speech Acts
           • The complexity of the function of language generates more than simple back and forth comments.
             • Predication
               • The ability to problem solve at an adult level or to understand words like freedom and respect, among others, are all products of a language user’s ability to predicate cognitively
             • Auditory Preposition
               • Students who are able to use their own words to debate, persuade, follow complex time-based activities, organize their work, complete multi-tasks on time; are able to use complex language functions in Predicate Prepositions.
     • Productivity
       • Expanded language functions help a person become more productive, because the person, who has maximum use of these expanded language functions, is able to use language to create a variety of linguistic forms for literacy.