The study of language functions by Arwood, E. L. (2010).

Basic language functions
1. Language functions are the socio-cognitive processes of human's neuro-semantic language learning system. Dance. (1985)
2. It is also the result of the combination of the way a person uses the langauge to communicate and the way a person thinks.
Importantce of semantic realationships for learning to think.
1. It is about the child as an agent in relationship to his or her environment and how he or she learn through each experience
  1. Relation among Agent + action + object.
Preoperational and concrete level of thinking
1. Moment in which the aent is learning more about how relate to others (Social development) and how He or She thinks about play (cognitive development)
2. At the concrete level of thinking speakers are able to think cleary about others and what others are thinking
Expanded and extended language functions
1. Extended language functions allow for an encreased meaning through extending meanings of basic concepts. Wittgeinstein. 2001
2. Expanded; the most important social and cognitive development acquired by a child learning to think critically and problem solve
Thinking and speech acts
1. Speech acts; these conversational language functions include rules for the context, verbal and non verbal characteristics.
  1. On the other hand, thinking is the ability of building ideas based on our environment through experiences.

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