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Five Functions of Communication

The document outlines five key functions of communication, including regulation, social interaction, motivation, emotional expression, and information conveyance. It also discusses various speech contexts, communicative strategies, speech styles, and speech acts, detailing how these elements influence the way people communicate. Additionally, it categorizes speech acts into assertive, directive, commisive, expressive, and declaration types.

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Five Functions of Communication

The document outlines five key functions of communication, including regulation, social interaction, motivation, emotional expression, and information conveyance. It also discusses various speech contexts, communicative strategies, speech styles, and speech acts, detailing how these elements influence the way people communicate. Additionally, it categorizes speech acts into assertive, directive, commisive, expressive, and declaration types.

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Five functions of communication Termination-Ending the conversation or

closing
Regulation-To control behavior
Social interaction-Allows people to interact
to form bonds and intimacy Speech Context
Motivation-Persuade or encourage person The situation or environment in which
to change. communication takes place and how people
communicate and transmit message
Emotional expression-Facilitates people
expression of their feelings Types of speech context
Information-Convey information Intrapersonal-communication with oneself
Communicative strategies Interpersonal-involves more than one
person
Strategies that language use to overcome
communication problems in order to Dyadic comm-Involves two participants
convey the intended meaning.
Small group-3-10 people
Nomination-Proposing or suggesting a topic
Organizational-Interaction of members
with the people.
along the links
Restriction-Limiting the topic
Public-No interchange of speaker and
Turn taking-Process which people decide listener role.
who takes the floor
Mass com-Media
Topic control-Regulating or manipulating
Intercultural com-The exchange of concept,
the topic
traditions, values between people of
Topic shifting-Changing the subject in a different nationalities
conversation
Speech Style
Repair-Refers to correction by the speaker
The unique way in which the information is
Self-initiated, self repair-both carried out by delivered to audience.
speaker
Types of Speech style
Other initiated, self-repair-initiated by
Intimate-People who have known each
other, speaker carried out
other for a long time
Self-initiated other repair-Speaker initiates
Casual-used among friends
the receiver to repair the trouble
Consultative-Opposite of intimate style
Other initiated, other repair-Receiver
initiates and carries out the repair of Formal-Speech is well organize and correct
trouble grammar.
Frozen-Most formal style, also called
fixed speech.

Speech Acts
An utterance that a speaker makes to
achieve an intended effect
Components of Speech
Locutionary-The phrase that has meaning
and structure
Illocution-The performance of the act of
saying something with a specific intention
Perlocution-Happens when the speaker says
has an effect on the the listener
Indirect speech acts-When the speaker does
not explicitly state the intended meaning
Performatives-Statements which enable the
speaker to perform something by just
stating it
Classification of speech acts
Assertive-Speaker expresses the belief
about the truth of a proposition
Directive-Speaker tries to make the receiver
perform an action
Commisive-Speaker commits to doing
something In the future
Expressive-Expresses how the speaker feels
about the situation
Declaration-Can be use to describe any
action or speech that makes a statement.

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