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Functional linguistics, a Common card
Functional linguistics is an approach to the study of language characterized by taking systematically into account the speaker's and the hearer's side, and the communicative needs of the speaker and of the given language community.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 127
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 127 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Functional linguistics quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Functional linguistics card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Functionalism sees functionality of ______ and its elements to be the key to understanding linguistic processes and structures.
Answer
language. Functionalism sees functionality of language and its elements to be the key to understanding linguistic processes and structures. From the Functional linguistics article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Nicolás Almagro. Nicolás Almagro 77 · Functional linguistics 69 · Samedan 65 · Gruppo API 62 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Linguistic functionalism spawned in the 1920s to 1930s from Ferdinand de Saussure's systematic structuralist approach to language.
- Functionalism sees functionality of language and its elements to be the key to understanding linguistic processes and structures.
- Functional theories of language propose that since language is fundamentally a tool, it is reasonable to assume that its structures are best analyzed and understood with reference to the functions they carry out.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Functional linguistics article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 58: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Functional linguistics
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Text : Wikipedia, Functional linguistics (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Femke 01, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
