It aims a direct expression of the speaker's attitude towards what he is speaking about. What kind of function is this?
Emotive
It helps describe messages that are intended to have an effect on the audience like command, insult and etc.
Conative
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
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