The Study of Language Functions

The Study of Language Functions

1. These language structures are patterns imitative level of learning language is more than imitated structures; language includes the function of thinking. Arwood, E. L. (2010)

2. the language is a means used for people to communicate

3. Language functions: is presented in a structural perspective that include words, sounds, morphemes, phonemes, sentences, parts of speech, order of sentences, sentence structures and vocabulary..

4. Semantic relationships: The words are related to each other according to different criteria, with respect to the words they have depending on their meaning.

   • The functions of the oldest semantic relationships of language that allow children to connect and develop with their world and the outside world are socila and cognitive
     • the relationships between words is divided into - polysemy - Homonymy - Synonymy - Antonimia - Semantic field

5. All human beings develop the meaning of their environment as they acquire their language learning system, the basis of language, for all speakers, is between the meaning of those relationships about people.

   • Problems with the acquisition of basic semantic relationships are: the lack of language development affects the social and cognitive development of the child   the lack of social and cognitive development lack of semantic relationships between agents, their actions and their objects. The meaning of thought extends and expands beyond the unique semantic relationship