LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

1. In batchman model, illocutionary competence consists of the ability to manipulate the functions of language, a component that Canale and Swain subsume under discourse and sociolinguistic competence.

   • Functions are essentially the purpose that we accomplish with language. e.g stating, requesting, responding, greeting, parting, etc.

2. Halliday's seven functions of language

   • 3.The representational function: is the use of language to make statements, convey facts and knowledge, explain or report.
   • 4. The interactional Function: Of language serves to ensure social maintenance; communicative contact between and among human being that simply allows them to stablish social contac and to keep channels of communication open, is part if the interactional function of language.
   • 5. The personal function allows a speaker to express feelings, emotions, personality, "gut-level" reactions. in the personal nature of language, cognition, affect, and culture all interact.
   • 6-The heuristic function: involves language used to acquire acquire knowledgeto learn about the enviroment.
   • 2. The regulatory Function: The regulatipon of encounters among people, approval, disapproval, behavior control setting laws and rules, are all regulatory features of language.
   • 1. The instrumental function: Serves to manipulate the enviroment, to cause certain events to happen. Sentences like "This courts Finds you guilty" Have an instrumental function, they have a particular condition
   • 7. The imaginative function: Serves to create imaginary systems or ideas. poetry tongue twisters, puns and other instances of the pleasurable uses of language also fall into the imaginative function.