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This is illustrated through the use of words in a creative manner to express oneself.
Poetic
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Poetic
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Emotive
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Referential
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Conative
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Conative
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Metalinguistic
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Phatic
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Referential
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Emotive
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Metalinguistic
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Emotive
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Phatic
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Poetic
He identified six functions of language in any speech event or verbal communication.
Roman Jakobson
It is a language that refers to language and communication and plays a vital role to assure meaning/message in communication.
Metalinguistic
It is a function to communicate something that is socially acceptable such as greeting (small talk).
Phatic
We normally think of it as information or denotative (literal meaning) functions of language like ideas, objects and etc which speakers share knowledge of.
Referential
It helps describe messages that are intended to have an effect on the audience like command, insult and etc.
Conative
It aims a direct expression of the speaker's attitude towards what he is speaking about. What kind of function is this?
Emotive
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