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Roman Jakobson's six functions of language
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addresser
emotive function
conveys emotion
CONTEXT
(referential)
swear words, exclamations
MESSAGE
(poetic)
gesture, speed of delivery, intonation
ADDRESSER
(emotive)
ADDRESSEE
(conative)
CONTACT
(phatic)
CODE
(metalinguistic)
conative function
addressee
conveying commands
prayers, speech-act verbs or performatives
Sources:
- Holenstein, Elmar (1976) Roman Jakobson’s approach to language: Phenomenological Structuralism. Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press.
referential function
context
- Yaguello, Marina. "The Speech Event and the Functions of Language." In: Language through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and Linguistics. (1998) Oxford: Oxford UP. [WWW document] <http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/snsmith/infodesign/handout.pdf>
conveys information
signs, telegrams
Roman Jakobson's six functions of language
presentation by Ruth Heckmann
poetic function
message
conveys play/pleasure
autonomy of language, structural character of language, art of words
rhyme, repetition, alliteration
ambiguity, violation of meaning, puns
phatic function
to maintain contact
prior to articulate language
through telephone/ radio
metalinguistic function
for discourse about entities of a linguistic nature
also lexical code for everyday use
conveys code analysis
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