It also explains why, for right-handed people, linguistic functions are concentrated on the left side of the brain.

The use of the same word will usually not frustrate the trust function, which is more crucial than the linguistic function.

For instance, there are pretty well-defined partitions associated with linguistic functions, areas named after French and German brain people.

Unlike the notion of locutionary act, which describes the linguistic function of an utterance, a perlocutionary effect is in some sense external to the performance.

Functional descriptions of grammar strive to explain how linguistic functions are performed in communication through the use of linguistic forms.

Gray argued from these findings that there was no relationship between the occurrence of the synaesthete's colour experience and the linguistic function that triggers them.

During the process of grammaticalisation, new layers are added to older ones whereby the functional domain is broadened, i.e. several items may fulfil the same linguistic function.

Modern brain imaging techniques have contributed greatly to a growing understanding of the anatomical organization of linguistic functions.

An approach to teaching and learning, or to the analysis of a language, which concentrates more on communicative than linguistic functions.

In these instances, the outward style of the language may be that of baby talk, but is not considered actual parentese, as it serves a different linguistic function (see pragmatics).