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Understanding a language may lead to formalist and functionalist views of language. One can’t actually separate form from function in the study of any language. They may be like the two sides of a single coin.

Linguists use several different approaches in order to understand or construe language. Those approaches, as Schiffrin (1994) explains, are Speech Act Theory, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Ethnography of Communication, Pragmatics, Conversation Analysis and Variation Analysis. Read the rest of this entry »

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November 8th, 2010 at 12:39 am

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