FUNCTIONALISM
- How language is used in everyday life.
- A tool for human use.
- Levels of analysis examined.
- Social context, usage and communicative function.
STRUCTURALISM
- Ferdinand De Saussure
- Looks at language as a fixed system
- Language - made up of units that connect with each other.
GENERATIVISM
- Noam Chomsky
- How humans acquire language.
- Language is made up of certain rules.
- "universal grammar" - All humans are capable of learning grammar.
COGNITIVISM
- Language emerges from cognitive processes.
- Grammar not understood, but learned.
- Language is based on the meaning the mind creates.
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