1. Reflection
The following reflection has been written with the purpose of providing the important
characteristics of the text “meaning as use: A functional view of semantics and
pragmatics”; moreover, the relevance that it has in relation to the course of Lexical
Analysis, helping to achieve the specific objective ofuse vocabulary, jargon and
expressions appropriately, and what is more to describe and explain the summary of the
text written by me.
The text essentially describes five types of linguistic meaning (conceptual, connotative,
social, affective and collocative) and the unit of analysis is the speech act. This text helps
us as futures teachers, not only in the sense of know how to use the language depending
on the context, but also how to teach it.
As futures teachers of English language, I strongly believe that is very important and
relevant that we know how to use the language in an appropriate way; furthermore, that
we can be able to develop it in an appropriate context with the right function andthe right
social meaning, which ones implies to achieve the intentions of us as speakers in the
delivery of the message.
In terms of the contribution of the text that is mentioned before to the course of Lexical
Analysis is based on the specific objective of the use vocabulary, jargon and expressions
appropriately, because if we as students of the English language want to learn how to use
those expressions in the right form, we need to know in first place the meaning of the
different uses in the language and the intentions of every one of them, and those
meanings are the ones that are going to help us to improve our messages in terms of the
communication with other persons, especially with our futures students.
In my personal opinion the text is, not only useful, but also very interesting and with the
appropriate information to make the process of reading and learning more easy. This
piece of writing provides us important features about the way of communicate the
language and acquire the knowledge as is the case of functional grammar. This text
definitely will help us in the future in the improvement of our speeches and classes in
which we are going to teach, and also we are going to be complete professionals be able
to speak in every context and not only specific topics related to the phonetic,
grammatical, or others similar features, but also to teach themes related to the culture
and the beginnings of the English language just as the other texts that are present in this
e-portfolio gave us.