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LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS - Coggle Diagram
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
Halliday's seven functions of language
Instrumental
Cause actions
Regulatory
Control behavior
Representational
Convey facts, describe, inform
Interactional
Social interaction
Personal
Express identity, feeling,reactions
Heuristic
Discover and learn
Imaginative
Create imaginary worlds, stories
Functions
Stating
Requesting
Responding
Greeting
Parting
Forms
Morpheme
Grammar rules
Discourse rules
Communication
Functional
Purposive
Designed to bring about some effect on the environment
Series of communicative speech acts