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Functions of language??

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Helps communicate effectively.
Express gratitude.
Increase feeling and liking.

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Function of language:

Instrumental-

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Obtains something that we want.

Ex: Sending Bday letter. Wanting your friends to come.

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FoL: Regulatory-

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Control/Regulate behavior of others.

Ex: For your Bday, you ask them to bring gifts.

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FoL: Informative-

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Communicate info and facts

Ex: Include date and time in invitation.

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FoL: Heuristic-

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Acquiring knowledge/understanding.

Ex: When sent invitation, ask them to respond and see if they’re available or not.

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FoL: Interactional-

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Establishes and defines social relationship.

Ex: Invite friends to party to help maintain friendship.

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FoL: Personal Language-

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Using language to express your personality.
Ex: Call your friends using nicknames.
Ex: When invite them, PM them jokes to express humor.

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FoL: Imaginative-

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Use language to express ourselves creativity.

Ex: As in dramas.

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Component of languages-

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Languages has its own rules of grammar.

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Phonological rules-

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Sound of words.

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Syntactic rules-

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Structure of words.
Ex: Vodka makes you’re sick when you’re well.
Vodka, when you’re sick, makes you well.

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Semantic rules-

  1. Denotative meaning-
  2. Connotative meaning-
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Meaning of words.

  1. Dictionary meaning.
  2. Interpretive meaning.
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Pragmatic rules-

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Emphasized how language is used in specific situations. Context.

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Pragmatic rules

Speech Act Theory-

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What people said and meant aren’t coincide.
Ex: Make a bet. Talking and doing it at the same time.
Ex: Anything could either be an excuse or criticism depends on how you take it as.

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Conversational rules-

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The way which communicators organize conservation.

Ex: If being asked, answer it. If you don’t know, say so.

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Contextual rules-

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Governing what topic are appropriate in different environment.
Ex: You won’t discuss certain thing during funerals.

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IoL: Dialect-

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Distinguish by vocab, grammar and pronunciation.

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IoL: Lexical choice-

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vocab.

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IoL: Gender-

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Men and women speaks in different dialects in the US.

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IoL: Age (cohort effect)-

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Generational differences (people born in same decade views the world in the same way.)

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IoL: Regionality-

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Transitioning from 1 region to another. Including habit and accent.

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IoL: Ethnicity and Race-

Code-switching-

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Can influence syntax, accent and word choice by speaking more languages.
Changing language or dialect in different situation.

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IoL: Education and Occupation-

Jargon-

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The more educated people are, the more similarity they speak.
Specialized terms in many professions.

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Symbolic-

Name-

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Something that stands for something else.

Symbol stands for you.

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Words-

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Are symbols that represent certain things.

Simplify amount of info.

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Powerless speech mannerisms-

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Can make you appear less authoritative or socially attractive.

27
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Hedges-

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“I think, kinda, um, well”

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Hesitations-

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um, uh, hm…

29
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Tag questions-

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isn’t it???

30
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Disclaimer-

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I probably shouldn’t say this, but…

31
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“Thank you” and “sorry”

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“thank you” and “sorry”

32
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Dis-confirmation-

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Ignore a person’s present.

33
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Confirmation-

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Acknowledging people.

34
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Nominalist-

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Any idea can be expressed in any language.