Halliday's Communicative-Functional Model Revisited A Case Study
- Författare
- Keshavarz, M. H.
- Titel
- Halliday's Communicative-Functional Model Revisited A Case Study
- Utgivningsår
- 2001
- Tidskrift
- Communication disorders quarterly
- Volym
- 22
- Häfte
- 4
- Sidor
- 187-196
- Sammanfattning
The author of this study investigated the variety of functions used by a bilingual infant to provide further evidence for the communicative-functional approach to child language acquisition, compared the development of pragmatic functions in a monolingual and a bilingual child, and devised a categorization system that can be applied to child language acquisition data by other researchers in the field. Accordingly, data collected from a Persian-English bilingual child during a period of 10 months, as part of a longitudinal study, were analyzed, and a taxonomy of pragmatic functions the participant used was established. Analysis of the data indicated that despite certain differences in the frequency and distribution of pragmatic functions the participant employed in the present study (bilingual) and those used by Halliday's monolingual child, the two studies demonstrated that both children developed pragmatic functions from a very early age. The theoretical implication of this study is that the development of pragmatic functions is a natural tendency in young children, whether monolingual or bilingual. The practical outcome of the study is a proposed categorization system that is intended to facilitate the analysis of child language acquisition data from a communicative-functional perspective.