GROUP 13 KHUSNO ABDUL AZIZ AND NIRWATI

NAME           : NIRWATI (2130730014)

                       : KHUSNO ABDUL AZIZ (2130730007)

CLASS          : IVA

GROUP         :13

Language Function

Functions are essentially the purposes that we accomplish with language, e.g., stating, recuesting, responding, greeting, parting, etc. Function cannot be accmplished, of course, without the forms of language: morphemes, words, grammar rules, discourse rules, and other organizational competencies. Function are somtimes directly related to form.

Communication is not merely an event someting that happen: it is functional, purposive and designed to bring about some effect, some change, however subtle or unobservable on the environment of hearers and speakers. Austrin stressed the importence of concequences the perlocutionary force, of liguistic communication.

Halliday’s Sevent Fuction of Language

1.      The instrumental function serves to mnipulate the environment, to cause certain events to happen.

2.      The regulatory function of language is the control of events.

3.      The representational function is the use of language to make statements convy facts and knowledge .

4.      The interactional function of language serves to ensure social maintenance.

5.      The personal function allows  a speaker to express feelings, emotions, personality, gut- level reactions.

6.      The heuristic function involves language used to aquere knowledge to learn aout the environment.

7.      The emaginative function serves to create imaginary systems or ideas. Telling fairy tales, joking, or writing a novel are all uses of the imaginative function.

Functional Approaces to Language Teaching

            The most  apparent practical classroom application of functional description of language was found in the development of fuctional syllabuses more populaarly nasional fuctional sylabuses. Grammar which was the primary element in the historically preceding structural syllabus was relegated to a secondary focus. Van Ek and alexander’s (1975) exhaustive list of language functions become a besic reverence for nsional functional syllabuses, now simply referred to as functional syllabuses.

1.      Intoducing self and other people

2.      Exchanging personal information

3.      Asking how to spell someone’s name

4.      Giving commands

5.      Appologizing and thanking

6.      Identifying and describing people

7.      Asking for information