Linguistics focuses on

• the study of world languages

• the rules and conventions of language

• English phonetics

• the scientific study of language

He considers language as a set of culturally transmitted behavior patterns shared by a group of individuals.

• Charles Fries

• Malinowski

• Joseph Greenberg

• Oller

He believed that speech is language and the written is just a secondary reflection of the language.

• Searle & Austin

• Malinowski

• Joseph Greenberg

• Charles Fries

He believed that language has two elements, the cognitive and emotive or affective.

• Malinowski

• Joseph Greenberg

• Oller

• Charles Fries

Its function is creating stories, games and new linguistic play including poems, rhymes, riddles not necessarily about anything at all.

• Representational Function

• Imaginative Function

• Heuristic Function

• Regulatory Function

Its function is to get along with others to include or exclude.

• Representational Function

• Interactional Function

• Heuristic Function

• Regulatory Function

Its function is to seek and learn using language to explore one’s environment.

• Representational Function

• Interactional Function

• Heuristic Function

• Regulatory Function

Its function is to communicate information and convey a message with specific reference to the processes, objects and relations of the real world with him/her.

• Representational Function

• Interactional Function

• Heuristic Function

• Regulatory Function

Language can be described in terms of observable and verifiable data as it is being used

• Structuralist's View

• Transformationalist's View

• Functionalist's View

• Interactionalist's View

Language is a tool for creating and maintaining social interactions through conversations.

• Structuralist's Views

• Transformationalist's View

• Functionalist's View

• Interactionalist's View