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Tutorial 2-Language Forms N Function

The document discusses two main language functions: 1) The informative function expresses information through statements that can be true or false, such as facts. 2) The expressive function reports or evokes feelings and attitudes through language like poetry, literature, and ordinary discourse. Expressive language is neither true nor false.

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The document discusses two main language functions: 1) The informative function expresses information through statements that can be true or false, such as facts. 2) The expressive function reports or evokes feelings and attitudes through language like poetry, literature, and ordinary discourse. Expressive language is neither true nor false.

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Group : 3 Group members : Zayyani, Nadiah, Mathila Tutorial : 2 Unit : PISMP SN Jan 10

Discuss the language forms and functions used for expressing opinions 1. Informative language function: - essentially, the communication of information. a. The informative function affirms or denies propositions, as in science or the statement of a fact.. b. This function is used to describe the world or reason about it (e.g.., whether a state of affairs has occurred or not or what might have led to it). c. These sentences have a truth value; that is, the sentences are either true or false (recognizing, of course, that we might not know what that truth value is). Hence, they are important for logic. 2. Expressive language function: - reports feelings or attitudes of the writer (or speaker), or of the subject, or evokes feelings in the reader (or listener). a. Poetry and literature are among the best examples, but much of, perhaps most of, ordinary language discourse is the expression of emotions, feelings or attitudes. b. Two main aspects of this function are generally noted: (1) evoking certain feelings and (2) expressing feelings. c. Expressive discourse, qua expressive discourse, is best regarded as neither true or false. E.g., Shakespeare's King Lear's lament, "Ripeness is all!" or Dickens' "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom; it was the age of foolishness" Even so, the "logic" of "fictional statements" is an interesting area of inquiry. http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/form_lang.html

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