The acquisition and development of language is linked to the performance of activities such as communication and social interaction, emotional expression, knowledge of reality and also, in the human species, voluntary behavior and rational thought, among other In this Psychology-Online article, we will talk about The functional dimension of language.
According to Bühler it fits interpret language and the individual signs that compose it as an instrument (Aristotle's organon), which is functionally linked to different spheres of the subjects' activity and which puts the sender in relation both to one of several receivers and to that aspect of reality referred to by the signs.
Taking into account the functional dimension of language forces us to shift our attention from the language itself towards the user who knows and uses this language in their communicative exchanges or in their general relationships with the half.
From a psychological perspective of the study of language, the analysis of the nature and genesis of the different functions of language, on the one hand, and the meticulous study of the genetic relationship existing between the structural peculiarities of linguistic systems and their functional potential, has allowed to deepen the study of the
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