Résumé:
Functionalism is a trend that emerged with the Prague
School, and its first founder was William Mathesius in 1926 AD,
who explained on the principle that the main function of language
is “communication,” as its mission is the process of
communication that brings it out of the minds to the external
milieu thanks to sounds.
And its concept developed later with Simon Dick, where the
meaning of the function for him was not limited to the role of
communication only, but rather was conditioned by the mixing of
three elements - semantics, structure, and pragmatics - that make
the discourse more accurate, given that its parties are united by a
dialogue relationship in which the sentence is based in an unusual
way The intention of the speaker is the one that determines the
arrangement of that structure and directs the meaning of the
desired.