THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

1. LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

   • DEFINITION
     • These structures include words, sounds, morphemes, phonemes, sentences, parts of speech, sentence order, sentence structures, and vocabulary.
   • Semantic relationships
     • These semantic relationships function to assist the child’s development
       • socially
       • cognitively.
     • They are the associations that there exist between the meanings of words
   • Preoperational cognition
     • Here, child is learning more about how to relate to others
       • (social development)
         • about how he or she thinks about play
       • (cognitive development)
         • about how the child is learning sentence structures.
   • Social intentions
     • Social intentions refer to the child’s purpose for communicating with someone else.
     • Some of the social intentions for representing thinking through language functions include:
       • greeting, rejecting, denying, existing, negating, and requesting.

2. EXPANDED LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

   • DEFINITION
     • They are probably the most important social and cognitive developments acquired by a child learning to think critically and problem solve.
   • This are the expanded language functions provide for a speaker
     • Displacement
       • It´s a language function that increases along with the increased development of conceptual meanings
         • semanticity, flexibility and redundancy.
     • Semanticity
       • Increasing complexity of meaning throughout life is a language function called semanticity.
     • Flexibility
       • It´s a skill that children use to learn the rules of language through strategies.
     • Redundancy
       • When a speaker continues to acquire meaning through the Neuro-Semantic Language Learning System. He can use more words to convey a particular meaning.
     • productivity
       • It´s a function that some students who cannot process sound into speech can learn concepts through the adult assigning meaning through writing rather than speaking.

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