LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

1. The underlying cognitive understanding or thinking that language represents; basic language functions occur in early cognitive development.

   • Semantic relationships
     • The relationships that words have depending on their meaning
       • Agent + action + objec
       • Extension
       • Types
   • Extended semantic relationships
     • expand the meaning of the utterance.
     • Semantic expression
     • Expansion
   • Social intentions
     • verbal and nonverbal actions combine to create a social intention.
       • Refer to the way or expression of communicating with another person.
   • Then are expanded and extended into more complex thinking where conversation is easily shared as a language function

2. Preoperational cognition

   • Second stage of thinking for most neuro-typical children.
     • Characteristic of thinking the world revolves around the person which could occur at any age.

3. Expanded language functions

   • Functions—language is used to expand on basic functions of agents, actions, and objects for more complex meanings (semanticity)
     • For greater variety of language use (productivity)
       • for greater use of language in a variety of settings (flexibility)
         • and for more efficiency (limited redundancy)
   • Semanticity
     • language function also known as a linguistic function that refers to an increase of meaning for any concep

4. Flexibility

   • linguistic function, that refers to the way that a personis able to use language about the particular topic in a variety of places.

5. Productivity

   • Linguistic function that refers to the ability to create a variety of utterances about the same topic

6. Displacement

   • Linguistic function that develops as cognition increases the meaning of ideas further and further away from the physical sourc.

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