Language Functions_Carlos

Language Functions_Carlos

1. displacement

   • goes from the ability to take distance from the here and now, to refers to ideas, and is tightly connected to predication and auditory preposition as higher language functions.

2. semanticity

   • at the bottom remains words as vocabulary, but as we move up meets concepts and ideas, that evolve as over the life of a person, turning complex along the life process

3. flexibility

   • this functions is the ability of the person to use the language to his or her needs, and overcome any forthcoming situations the best way.

4. productivity

   • this is the ability to use the language in other forms like writing, the former turns paramount due to what it demads to catch up with a not present, target users.

5. redundancy

   • this last one had the person or learners appropriate language functions so well, in order to not misspell or incur in lack of sense (semantic) mistake better known as a wrong interpretation.

6. basic language functions

   • agent+action+object
     • extension of the surface to interact in the here and now, preoperational stage

7. semantic relationship

   • words+sound+concept+idea+concrete meaning
     • overlapping and layering of patterns
       • increase vocabulary and helps to create predicating and referring

8. preoperational and concrete level of thinking

   • the agent acts and thinks in the here an now
     • as the child grew up, takes distant and starts to put into functions higher language functions as displacement (abstractions), where then other functions add up to meet concrete cognitions (thinking socially), awareness of how others affect my discourse.

9. expanded language

   • relates to simmilar structues aplied to conexe ideas or objects, extrapolations is key, points of reference and patterns

10. extended lang.

    • points to the variety of communicative intentions, that got to be met thanks to extended meaning, at this stage semantic meaning plays a key role, modelling utterance, to take it to a socially acceptable production

11. social intentions

    • requesting
      • time-based language
        • this drive as to look topic as, preposition of time, place and movement
    • greeting
      • this points to value different context, as formar and informal greetings
    • rejecting
      • yes or no questions
        • direct us to check the impact of responses in the communicative act, what if (conditionals)
    • denying
      • ways to show disagreement and/or refute ideas
    • existing
      • quantifier there is/are, plural or singular, past present and future tenses
    • negating
      • how to say no in a polite manner, to not sound rude.
    • communicative approach