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Marjory Gordon (Cleveland, November 10, 1931 – Massachusetts, April 29, 2015) [1] was a nursing theorist and professor who created a nursing assessment theory known as Gordon's functional health patterns. Gordon served in 1973 as the first president of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association [2] until 1988. [3]
Gordon’s functional health patterns is a method devised by Marjory Gordon to be used by nurses in the nursing process to provide a more comprehensive nursing ...
Milton Myron Gordon (October 3, 1918 – June 4, 2019) was an American sociologist. He was most noted for having devised a theory on the Seven Stages of Assimilation . [ 1 ] He was born in Gardiner, Maine . [ 2 ]
The term 'functionalism' or 'functional linguistics' became controversial in the 1980s with the rise of a new wave of evolutionary linguistics. Johanna Nichols argued that the meaning of 'functionalism' had changed, and the terms formalism and functionalism should be taken as referring to generative grammar, and the emergent linguistics of Paul Hopper and Sandra Thompson, respectively; and ...
John E. Joseph identifies several defining features of structuralism that emerged in the decade and a half following World War I: Systematic Phenomena and Synchronic Dimension: Structural linguistics focuses on studying language as a system (langue) rather than individual utterances (parole), emphasizing the synchronic dimension.
Linguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features to allow their comparison. Its aim is to describe and explain the structural diversity and the common properties of the world's languages. [ 1 ]
Functional discourse grammar has been developed as a successor to functional grammar, attempting to be more psychologically and pragmatically adequate than functional grammar. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The top-level unit of analysis in functional discourse grammar is the discourse move, not the sentence or the clause .
Generative grammar generally distinguishes linguistic competence and linguistic performance. [11] Competence is the collection of subconscious rules that one knows when one knows a language; performance is the system which puts these rules to use.