Referential - Language users sharing information with audience; may or may not be true, but the message is presented as being factual and objective, Emotive - Users express emotions and desires; usually about the addresser and the presentation of emotion - real or not, Phatic - Creates and maintains social connections between the writer/speaker and their audience; may be somewhat meaningless outside a social context, Metalinguistic - Describes language itself; the language used to talk/write about language, Poetic - Focus on message itself rather than on the communicators; ‘aesthetic function’ where texts are created with consideration of beauty or wit of the words, Conative - Directions, questions, commands; message which aim to cause the audience to react in some way,

Jakobson's Functions of Language

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