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FUNCTIONALISM
المؤلف:
John Field
المصدر:
Psycholinguistics
الجزء والصفحة:
P120
2025-08-25
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FUNCTIONALISM
A semantic approach to syntax associated with M.A.K. Halliday. Applied to language acquisition, it foregrounds the part played by the child’s wish or need to communicate pragmatically. The theory resembles other social-interactionist accounts by placing importance on the interaction, both verbal and gestural, between carer and child and on the ‘exchange of meanings’ to which it gives rise. Much of the evidence supporting the theory draws upon Halliday’s observations of the early language of his son, Nigel.
When an infant is between 9 and 15 months, it shows signs of constructing proto-words from its babble. It reserves certain sounds or sequences of sounds for particular purposes: examples would be a child consistently using [na] when it wanted something and [n ] for a taste it enjoyed.
The child’s early words are said to represent four general functions:
instrumental (‘I want’)
interactional (‘me and you’)
regulatory (‘Do as I tell you’)
personal (‘Here I am’)
To these, the child later adds three more:
imaginative (‘Let’s pretend’)
informative (‘I have something to tell you’)
heuristic (‘Tell me why’)
In a second phase, there is a gradual increase in the range of meanings which the child learns to express within these functional areas, even if the forms used are not those of adult language. This coincides with what other commentators term the vocabulary explosion; Halliday argues that it is a semantic and syntactic explosion as well. The personal and heuristic functions are said to merge into a single mathetic function (involving ‘learning’ through language), while the other five merge into a rudimentary pragmatic system (involving ‘doing’ through language).
See also: Social-interactionism
Further reading: Cattell (2000: Chap. 8); Halliday (1975)
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اخر الاخبار
اخبار العتبة العباسية المقدسة
الآخبار الصحية
"المهمة".. إصدار قصصي يوثّق القصص الفائزة في مسابقة فتوى الدفاع المقدسة للقصة القصيرة
(نوافذ).. إصدار أدبي يوثق القصص الفائزة في مسابقة الإمام العسكري (عليه السلام)
قسم الشؤون الفكرية يصدر مجموعة قصصية بعنوان (قلوب بلا مأوى)
