| Lemma | imaginative model |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Halliday (1973) |
| Titolo | Explorations in the functions of language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | model (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | The other foundation for the child’s ʻlanguage about languageʼ is to be found in the immaginative function. This also relates the child to his environment, but in a rather different way. Here, the child is using language to create his own environment; not to learn about how things are but to make them as he feels inclined. From his ability to create, through language, a world of his own making he derives the IMMAGINATIVE model of language; and this provides some further elements of the metalanguage, with words like 'story', 'make up' and 'pretend'. |