![]() ![]() Knowledge and compliance to the core values were fundamental ingredients for providing quality services. However, 2 out of 8 participants engaged in conflict and had a lack of knowledge about 1 out of 4 core values. According to the study, most employees engaged in sharing the norms and values of the human service company, ultimately fulfilling the goals or core values. The analysis of the data evolved from using the approach of the hermeneutic circle, which consisted of examining the parts, such as activities and the connection to the whole, such as core values. Descriptive coding, value coding, and the Ethnograph software was used to identify themes from the data. Face-to-face interviews, field notes, questionnaire, and participant observation were the tools for collecting the data. Using purposeful sampling, multicultural employees were selected from 4 departments within the human service company. The purpose of this ethnography study was to explore the process of 8 culturally different employees working together at a human service organization. Researchers have not examined how employees representing different cultures socialize via shared norms and values in human service companies. Shared values and norms are at the core for unifying different cultures socializing or working to fulfill the goals and mission of organizations. ![]() Finally, it is pointed out that S&F agrees with Newmeyer that Functional Grammar and Role and Reference Grammar fail to attain fully their professed standards of adequacy. Recent work by Jackendoff and his colleagues is shown to present serious challenges to mainstream generativism and to make many claims which agree with those of functionalism and constructionism, so providing the possibility of interesting cross-fertilisation. They also vary in the level of motivation they postulate. Furthermore, not only is there more direct connection between meanings and forms than Newmeyer claims, but also structural-functional theories invoke a second type of semantic motivation not involving one-to-one mapping. It is pointed out that functional linguistics claims a motivational relationship between semantics and syntax rather than a purely interpretive one as in formalist theories, and that functionalists take a much wider view of what constitutes semantics. Functionalist claims about external motivation of the language system are discussed, and it is shown that there are very considerable differences between Chomsky’s recent discussion of external motivation and that in the functionalist and cognitivist/constructionist literature. The aim of this article is not only to reply to the points made in Newmeyer’s review of my Structure and function: A guide to three major structural-functional theories (S&F), but also to further discussion on relationships between functionalism and formalism. ![]()
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