Functions of language

Dafydd Gibbon

12 January 1997

 
• Language Variety Space
• De Saussure's Dualistic Model (1915)
• De Saussure's Conceptualistic Circuit Model (1915)
• De Saussure's Langue / Parole distinction (1915)
• Bühler's Constitutive Factors (1934)
• Bühler's Instrumental (Organon) Model (1934)
• Warren Weaver's three levels of problems in communication (1949)
• Claude Shannon's mathematical model of communication (1949)
• Jakobson's Constitutive Factors Model (1960)
• Functional structure of Jakobson's Constitutive Factors Model (1960)
• Gibbon's Contextual Role Hierarchy Model (1985)
• Functional structure of the Contextual Role Hierarchy Model (1985)
• Role granularity in the Contextual Role Hierarchy Model (1985)
• Searle's Speech Act Theory (1969)
• Searle on Speech Acts as interdependent components (1969)
• Searle's inventory of illocutionary force indicating devices (1969)
• Searle on `How to promise: a complicated way' (1969)
• Searle's felicity conditions for promising (1969)
• Grice's Cooperative Principle and the Conversational Maxims (1975)
• Text syntax: the markup language hierarchy
• Syntax and semantics
• Hypertext pragmatics: Hypertext acts
• Hypertext pragmatics: The Functional Cycle
• Some considerations for Web hypertext design
• A general design procedure