Synopsis:
- Formalism
- Six elements of communication:
- A message
- ...is sent by an addresser
- ...to an addressee
- _who shares a common code,
- _a physical channel (contact)
- ... and a context
- Emotive function: the speaker's attitude to the topic
- Conative function: the addressee (eg, vocative and imperative sentences)
- Referential function: cognitive use of language (entails the presence of a self-conscious narrator)
- Poetic function: aesthetic function of language ( the message for its own sake)
- Metalingual function: the verbal code itself
- Phatic function: the contact between speaker and addressee
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