The hunter-gatherer people known as the Wanniyala-Aetto or Veddas are the last descendants of the ancient inhabitants of Sri Lanka, predating the arrival of the Sinhalese. They are the original hunting and gathering societies that gradually disappeared as the Sinhalese spread over the Island.
1 Functional Theory. 2  The functional approach to small group communication is concerned with the results or outcomes of group behaviors and structures. 3  Research conducted from this perspective suggests that several conditions must exist for group members to make appropriate decisions and effectively solve problems.xamine a small group communication case study through multiple lenses.. Your two primary objectives are to analyze and evaluate the group's communication and performance. Guidelines. You will analyze and evaluate the case using three perspectives: systems theory and two other theories of your choice.
It was renamed Functional Discourse Grammar in the 1990s, but the theory can go by either name. This theory is called functional because it states that all constituents, whether affixes, words, phrases, or sentences, have semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic functions.he most famous of these is Systemic Functional Grammar, which was first published by British linguist Michael Halliday in 1961. Other functional grammars include Danish Functional Linguistics, lexical functional grammar, and Role and Reference Grammar.