COMM1010 - Lecture 4 - Theories of language

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Who focus on structuralism?

Saussure

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Who focus on Generative Grammar?

Chomsky

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Who focus on Functional / Pragmatic View? - 3 People

Austin

Searle 

Goffman

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Who focus on Sociocultural View? - 2 people

Vygotsky 

Halliday

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Who focus on Crtical and Postmodern View? - 2 people

Foucault

Fairclough

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The theory _ says language is a system of signs. Meaning comes from structure. 

structuralism 

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The theory _ says humans are born with an innate ability to produce languages.

generative grammar

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The theory _ says language is an action - we do things with words.

pragmatic / fuctional

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The theory _ says language develops through interaction and social context

socioculture

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The theory _ says language reflects and reproduces power

critical and postmodern