Halliday and Dore


Halliday


These are Halliday's 6 functions of language in the child language acquisition


1)  Regulatory: Language used to influence the behaviour of others. Concerned with persuading / commanding / requesting other people to do things you want.


2) Interactional: Language used to develop social relationships and ease the process of interaction. Concerned with the phatic dimension of talk.


3) Personal: Language used to express the personal preferences and identity of the speaker. Sometimes referred to as the ‘Here I am!’ function – announcing oneself to the world.


4) Representational: Language used to exchange information. Concerned with relaying or requesting information.


5) Heuristic: Language used to learn and explore the environment. Child uses language to learn; this may be questions and answers, or the kind of running commentary that frequently accompanies children’s play.


6) Imaginative: Language used to explore the imagination. May also accompany play as children create imaginary worlds, or may arise from storytelling.


John Dore


John Dore created an alternative to Halliday's theory of language functions
He focused more in interactional utterances, below are the Language functions


1) Labelling: This is naming a person, object or place


2) Repeating: This is repeating an adult word or utterance


3) Answering: Responding to an utterance of another speaker


4) Requesting action: asking for something to be done for them


5) Calling: greeting someone's attention


6) Greeting: greeting someone


7) Protesting: objecting to another person's request


8) Practising: using language when no adult is present