GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES
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Regulatory
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Interactional
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Personal
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Representational
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Detailed explanation-1: -Michael Halliday (2003:80) stated a set of seven initial functions, as follows: Regulatory, Interactional, Representational, Personal, Imaginative, Instrumental and Heuristic. Regulatory Function. The Regulatory Function of language is language used to influence the behavior of others.
Detailed explanation-2: -Regulatory functions of language are to influence the behaviors of others through requests, rules, or persuasion.
Detailed explanation-3: -Halliday’s theory about child language development lies in specifying the functions which language has in society and establishing what reflection these functions find in the structure of the language itself. His theory of language functions derives mainly from two prominent figures: Malinowski and Firth.
Detailed explanation-4: -Michael Halliday, the founder of systemic functional linguistics, calls these three functions the ideational, interpersonal, and textual. The ideational function is further divided into the experiential and logical.