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Nuyts, Jan. 1989. On the functionality of language. Papers in Pragmatics 3 (1) : 88–128.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
communicative function | expressive function | function | functional explanation | functions of language | phatic function
Journal DOI
10.1075/iprapip

Annotation

A theoretical discussion of the way in which the functions of language are to be understood. In addition to a review of more classical typological proposals on the functions of language use, N presents a new functional scheme for human natural language that aims at more systematicity.