Social and intellectual functions of language: a fruitful distinction?  

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Vejleskov, Hans

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development vol. 9 no. 1-2 (1988), page 61-66.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JMM/9 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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When the functions of language are discussed, it must be made clear whether one considers (A) the language system, (B) conversations or (C) utterances. A study of utterance functions in pre-school children is briefly presented in order to show that within a certain conversation, whether it be 'social' or 'intellectual', the children may well make utterances with 'social' as well as 'intellectual' functions. Attention is drawn to the activity of role play which often implies conversations that take place at different levels, and must often be defined 'social-cognitive'. Although it is natural, from a psychologically pragmatic point of view, to distinguish between intellectual and social utterances, discrimination between intellectual and social conversations, at least among pre-school children, is very dubious. In conclusion, the value of the observation of utterance functions during conversations to the understanding of monolingual as well as bilingual children is illustrated.

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