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Functions of Language

Authors

Geoff Thompson

-Roman Jakobson

Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics

Geoffrey Finch

Linguist and Literary Theorist.

Senior lecturer in Humanities at Anglia Polytechnic University.

-Books:

"Introducing Functional Grammar","Text-type and Texture", "Discourse Analysis".

-Structural Analysis of Language.

Books: "Linguistic terms and Concepts", "How to study Linguistics".

- Phonology.

Micro Functions of Language.

- Sintax and Morphology.

GEOFFREY FINCH

MICRO FUNCTIONS

- PHYSIOLOGICAL:

- ENERGY

- RECORDING:

- RECORD

- IDENTIFYING:

- NAMES

What is Language?

GEOFF THOMPSON

Roman Jacobson

FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE

ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE

- EMOTIVE or EXPRESSIVE: feelings

- CONATIVE or VOCATIVE: action

- REFERENTIAL or INFORMATIVE: topic

- PHATIC: contact

- METALINGUISTIC: explanations

-POETIC: rhymes

- ADDRESSER: sends the message

- ADDRESSE: receives the message

- CONTEXT : place and time

- CHANNEL: it is the means through which it is sent

- CODE: the symbols used.

- MESSAGE: the information transmitted.

Language is the most important aspect in our lives.

- FEELINGS

- THOUGHTS

- OPINIONS

- NEEDS

- RULES

PYGMALION

George Bernard Shaw -1912-

PYGMALION

-Playwright, Critic and Socialist.

Main characters:

- Modern Drama 1880- 1950

-Plays: "Mrs. Warren´s Profession", "Major Barbara", "Saint Joan", "Pygmalion".

Professor Higgins: Scientist of phonetics

Colonel Pickering: linguist of Indian dialects.

Eliza Doolittle: A poor flower girl.

Mrs. Eynsford: An upper-class lady.

Clara and Fredy: Mrs. Eynsford´s daughter and son.

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