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In the pedagogical framework of oral communication and functional linguistics, language serves diverse pragmatic, interactional, and cognitive purposes. Consider the following four advanced propositions regarding the functions of language and the macro-skills of listening and speaking: I. According to George Yule and Gillian Brown's functional distinction in spoken discourse, transactional talk is primarily message-oriented, focusing on the efficient transmission of propositional information, goods, or services, whereas interactional talk is primarily listener-oriented (interpersonal), focusing on the establishment and maintenance of social solidarity, rapport, and social identity. II. In listening comprehension processing models, bottom-up processing relies extensively on the listener's prior background knowledge, contextual schema, situational expectancies, and global macro-structures to predict auditory input, whereas top-down processing involves the sequential acoustic decoding of phonemes, morphemes, word boundaries, and morphosyntactic structures. III. According to Roman Jakobson's model of linguistic functions, the metalinguistic function focuses on utilizing the language code itself to discuss, explain, or clarify the linguistic system (e.g., explaining the definition of a lexical item), while the phatic function operates exclusively to check whether the communication channel is operational, establish interpersonal contact, or sustain social interaction without necessarily conveying novel cognitive data. IV. In Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) classrooms, oral fluency tasks frequently incorporate information-gap, opinion-sharing, and jigsaw activities that compel learners to actively negotiate meaning, manage turn-taking constraints, and handle real-time psycholinguistic processing demands. Identify the option that correctly evaluates the pedagogical, linguistic, and functional validity of propositions I, II, III, and IV according to modern applied linguistics and Functions of language theory.
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Proposition I is valid; Brown and Yule distinguish between transactional (message-oriented/information transfer) and interactional (interpersonal/social rapport) language functions. Proposition II is invalid because the definitions of bottom-up and top-down processing are inverted: bottom-up processing refers to decoding acoustic signals phoneme by phoneme and word by word, whereas top-down processing relies on background knowledge, schemas, and global expectancies. Proposition III is valid according to Roman Jakobson's Functions of language, where the metalinguistic function reflects upon the code and the phatic function maintains the communication channel. Proposition IV is valid as CLT task types actively foster meaning negotiation and fluency.
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