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
-Ex. History books, Literature, Philosophy
 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
illustrated in Example:
poetry where “I am falling
emotions in love with
and attitudes you,
are you are the
expressed apple of my
beautifully. eye,
the sun of my
universe,
 DIRECTIVE/ IMPERATIVE

Examples
1. Turn off your -MOST EASILY
cell phone. SEEN IN
COMMANDS OR
REQUESTS.
2. Christian,
please sing -WHICH LETS “GO”
“Nasaan ka OR “PREVENTS”
AN ACTION TO BE
Irog.” DONE.

3. Send me a
 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 things
done
 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 instructs Filipinos to
yearn for freedom and
independence.
 Output Creation
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”
 Thought to
Ponder:
“ 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.