Social And Functional Approaches To Language And Thought
Download Social And Functional Approaches To Language And Thought PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Social And Functional Approaches To Language And Thought book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages.
Social and Functional Approaches to Language and Thought
One of the most fundamental and recurring issues in the social sciences--the relation between language and thought--is examined in this work from a broad and coherent interdisciplinary perspective. Many of the great historical issues are also addressed and newly examined such as: the multifunctionality of language, the role of "natural logic" in the structuring of linguistic rules, and the place of linguistic disambiguation and repair in particular cultures.
Sociocultural Approaches to Language and Literacy
Author: Vera John-Steiner
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 1994-08-26
This book deals with a major crisis in education - the achievement of literacy skills.
Functional Approaches to Language
Author: Shannon Bischoff
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date: 2013-10-29
Functionalism, as characterized by Allen, (2007:254) "holds that linguistic structures can only be understood and explained with reference to the semantic and communicative functions of language, whose primary function is to be a vehicle for social interaction among human beings." Since the 1970s, inspired by the work of Jespersen, Bolinger, Dik, Halliday, and Chafe, functionalism has been attached to a variety of movements and models making major contributions to linguistic theory and to various subfields within linguistics, such as syntax, discourse, language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, typology, and documentary linguistics. Further, functional approaches have had a major impact outside linguistics in fields such as psychology and education, both in terms of theory and application. The main goal of functionalist approaches is to clarify the dynamic relationship between form and function (Thompson 2003:53). Functionalist perspectives have gained more ground over the past decades with more linguists resorting to functional explanations to account for linguistic structure. The authors in this volume present the current state of functional approaches to linguistic inquiry expanding our knowledge of language and linguistics.