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cophone Public Servants learning English in the language training program of the Canadian Government. The paper assesses the suitability of a modular curriculum for integrating functional and core language learning. The development of the module involved ad hoc analysis of telephone discourse. This analysis revealed a complicating factor in applying the concept of function to real speech. The literature and taxonomies of the functional approach create the impression that utterances (utterance here defined as everything one person says before someone else begins to speak) have single functions. An examination of telephone discourse shows an interplay of functions within individual utterances. It may not yet be clear if the same functions exist in all languages. What seems clearer is that functional interplay at the utterance level, and the combinations and sequences, may be far from universal. That idea has important implications for the development of functional techniques. A number of techniques, including Function Frames and Function Dials, are described in this paper. 1. Background

Cognitive science · Linguistics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Philosophy · Psychology

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  Joan Friedenberg, Joan E Friedenberg et al.•TESOL Quarterly•1981

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