LANGUAGE OF LOGIC

A Fundamental of Reason & Discourse

4 IPR: Christian To-il Montemayor

STUDY GUIDE

What is Language?
What are the basic
functions or uses of
language?
Multiplicity of the Uses of
Language?
 BASIC FUNCTIONS OF
LANGUAGE :
A Fundamental in Reason &
Discourse
1. Informative/
Interrogative
-most common function ;
asking questions
-about things we know and
ask things we do not
know yet
 BASIC FUNCTIONS OF
LANGUAGE :
A Fundamental in Reason &
Discourse
Informative/ Interrogative

Ex.

> What is your name?

> I am Christ Jesus.

 Informative/Interrogative
EXAMPLE:
“San Fernando City is the Capital
of La Union and
Lorma Colleges is in San
Fernando, Pampanga”.
 EXPRESSIVE
Best Example:
illustrated “I am falling in
in poetry love with you,
you are the
where apple of my eye,
emotions the sun of my
universe,
and you are my
attitudes love”
 DIRECTIVE/ IMPERATIVE
Examples
1. Turn off your cell -MOST EASILY
phone. SEEN IN
COMMANDS
OR
2. Christian, please REQUESTS.
sing “Nasaan ka
Irog.”
-WHICH LETS
“GO” OR
3. Send me a “PREVENTS”
message when AN ACTION
 MULTIPLICITY OF THE
FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE
1. Heuristic – for
teaching/giving
instructions
2. Imaginative- for
literary expression
3. Ideational – for
expressing one’s
ideology
4. Manipulative – for
others to make
 MULTIPLICITY OF THE
FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE
Example:
A novel like the “Noli
Me Tangere by Jose
Rizal” , is an
expression of the
grievances of the
Filipinos to the
Spanish misrule;
nevertheless, it
motivates and
Instruction: Using your artistic ideas, create an
expressive poem about LOGIC. Printed.

Material/Logistic: Short Bond Paper

Criteria: (30 pts)

Artistry = 10
Originality = 10
Content = 10
Due: Next Meeting
 Thought to
Ponder:
“Language is the house of
being. Reasoning always
happens in language and
at the heart of reasoning
is being”
-Martin Heidegger
 “ Music may be the
language of the soul, but
the stuff with which we live
out our daily life is words.”
-Corazon L. Cruz
Propositional Logic = Otherwise known as Sentential Logic and Statement Logic.
It is the branch of logic that studies ways of joining and/ or modifying entire propositions,
Statements or sentences to form more complicated propositions, statements or
sentences, as well as the logical relationships and properties that are derived from
These methods of combining or altering statements.