The interactive function of language
In our everyday social encounters, language serves an
interactive function
.
It is not sufficient that language merely pairs forms and meanings. These form-
meaning pairings must be recognised by, and be accessible to, others in our
community. After all, we use language in order to ‘get our ideas across’, in other
words, to
communicate
. This involves a process of transmission by the speaker,
and decoding and interpretation by the hearer, processes that involve the
construction of rich conceptualisations (see figure 1.4).
The messages we choose to communicate can perform various interactive
and
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