Jakobson's Functions of Language
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Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language, which can be used to describe effective verbal communication. His work was influenced by Karl Bühler's organon model, to which he added the poetic, phatic, and metalingual functions.
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Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language, which can be used to describe effective verbal communication. His work was influenced by Karl Bühler's organon model, to which he added the poetic, phatic, and metalingual functions.
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Any speech event consists of six factors: addresser, addressee, context, message, contact, and code, corresponding to the six functions; a single utterance often simultaneously fulfills multiple functions.
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- zh.wikipedia.orghttps://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9B%85%E5%90%84%E5%B8%83%E6%A3%AE%E8%AF%AD%E8%A8%80%E5%8A%9F%E8%83%BDverified
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