The London school of linguistics

Members: Camila González.Bárbara Mercado.Paulina Ramírez.

Historical context. recognized around the whole Europe and used over

the time by other linguistic groups. Rise of the England view of linguistic in secret (XIII

Century). becomes important to a nation with an offical

language.

Representats.

Henry Sweet (1845-1912)

English philologist, phonetician and

grammarian.He was specialist in the Germanic

languages, particulary Old English and

Old Norse. Their studies were based in detailed

understanding of the workings of the vocal organs.

John Rupert Firth (1890-1960)

All branches of linguistics are concerned with ‘meaning’, even phonetics .

Worked in the phonetics

department of University College London.

Daniel Jones (18812-1967)He was involved in the development of the

international Phonetic Alphabet from 1907.

He invented the system of cardinal reference-points, which made precise and consistent transcription possible in the case of vowels.

Is studied as a part of social process and Social activity.Every utterance must be considered and understood

within its context of situation.

Theory of meaning

Meaning is used in context

Human behavior as a series of observable

patterns

To equate the meaning of a word with the range of verbal context in which it occurs

CONTEXT OF SITUATIONConstruct that is applied especially to repetitive

events in the social process, consisting of various levels of analysis.

LEVELS: Phonetic, phonological, grammatical and lexical.

FIRTHIAN PSICOLOGICAL ANALISISFirth, recognizes a number of systems of prosodies

operating at various point in structure.

One result of this is that utterances are represented as having a phonological hierachical structure

LONDON SCHOOLSGrammatical considerations.American Descriptivist

Bronislaw Malinowski

SYSTEMIC GRAMMARSG, Seems to be more successful than

Transformational grammar (Chomsky).It aims taxonomy for sentences (means

of descriptively classifying particular sentences).

It provides a battery of descriptive terms which enable the linguist giving characteristics of sentences.

HALLIDAY’S WORK

Halliday Systemic functional Grammar

RANKSHALLIDAY

It refers to a scale of sizes of grammatical unit roughly speaking: The

lowest-ranking unit is the Morpheme, the highesy-ranking is the sentence.

Any grammatical system will operate at a specific rank.

DELICACYHALLIDAYHalliday identifies seven functions that

language has for children in their early years

The first four functions help the child to satisfy physical, emotional and social needs age has for children in their early years

Instrumental: This is when the child uses language to express their needs (e.g.'Want juice')

Regulatory: This is where language is used to tell others what to do (e.g. 'Go away')

Interactional: Here language is used to make contact with others and form relationships (e.g. 'Love you, mummy')

Personal: This is the use of language to express feelings, opinions, and individual identity (e.g. 'Me good girl')

CAMBIAR EJEMPLOOS!!Heuristic: This is when language is used to

gain knowledge about the environment (e.g. 'What the tractor doing?')

Imaginative: Here language is used to tell stories and jokes, and to create an imaginary environment.

Representational: The use of language to convey facts and information.

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