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Question 1

What is a s?ignifiers

Answer 1

Written word eg ‘heart’

Question 2

What is signified

Answer 2

Concept associated with word

❤️

Question 3

What is a sign

Answer 3

Both signifier and signified - an arbitrary relationship - the association be could be anything

Question 4

What is language?

Answer 4

A system to convey information. ‘Meaning making’

Question 5

What does language functions mean?

Answer 5

The purpose of the message.

Question 6

How does communication occur?

Answer 6

Human cognition and understanding of the relationship between the signifier and the signified.

Question 7

What is a messages function?

Answer 7

The purpose of the message.

Question 8

What are the six factors related to a message function?

Answer 8

Context- setting, time, circumstances
Message- being communicated
Addresser
Addressee-
Contact - channel eg phone, text
Code -system of language

Question 9

Messages are shaped by context, contact and code as they travel between the xxxx and the xxxx

Answer 9

Addresser and addressee

Question 10

Sentences that are a statement eg the dog is wet are considered to have ‐‐—– function?

Answer 10

Referential

Question 11

What is the main purpose of referential function in language?

Answer 11

Sharing information

Question 12

What type of sentences are used in referential function?

Answer 12

Declarative as opposed to a question or command the function is a statement, sharing information.

Question 13

What does emotive function do?

Answer 13

Allows the user to express emotion and desires. Eg I love this Jeff Buckley song! I would have been so excited to have seen JB live.

Question 14

In emotive function, the ‐——-is expressing what?

Answer 14

Addresser is expressing emotion

Question 15

What are the six core functions of language

Answer 15

Referential (referencing something/statement)
Emotive ( expressing emotion or desire.
Conative
Poetic
Phatic
Metalinguistic

Question 16

Which one of these contains an interjection
A) I don’t like school
B) Teachers are useless
C) Huzzah! I have a student free day
D) Am I ever going to have to know what an interjection is in the real world?

Answer 16

Answer C if in doubt pick C

Question 17

What is conative function?

Answer 17

Directions, questions and commands
Do you like brussel sprouts?
Stop that!
Can be a direction (referential) in an indirect way eg I’m not a fan of brussel sprouts ….don’t give them to me

Question 18

What type of function are these and why?

Oh to be or not to be!
I am a railhead track abandoned with the sunset forgetting I ever happened

Answer 18

Poetic - beauty and wit in the composition (writing) of the text

Question 19

Which function has an aesthetic function?

Answer 19

Poetic

Question 20

Which function focuses on the formation of the message?

Answer 20

Poetic

Question 21

In what sort of communication might I find referential function?

Answer 21

A weather report
A teacher’s lecture
A non fiction book
A report from a doctor

Question 22

In what sort of communication might I find conative function?

Answer 22

Between siblings - demand
Giving directions to someone who is lost
At a dinner party

Question 23

What term is used in this unit for expressive language?
A)phatic
B)conative
C)poetic
D)emotive

Answer 23

D see it was a trick, not C

Question 24

What function could also be described as aesthetic?

Answer 24

Poetic always use this term.

Question 25

------function describes language itself

Answer 25

Metalinguistic function

Question 26

What type of function is this: Do you have an opinion on Trump?

Answer 26

Conative

Question 27

What is phatic function?

Answer 27

Communication designed to create and maintain social connection Eg have you had a good day?

Question 28

What type of function is this: I hope you are feeling better soon

Answer 28

Phatic

Question 29

What function might a teacher use to check they have been understood?

Answer 29

Metalinguistic Eg when I use the word reaction in physics, do you understand the meaning? Make sure you capitalise proper nouns Is this a verb or an adjective

Question 30

What type of function is this? What does bussin' mean in gen z?

Answer 30

Metalinguistic - slang

Question 31

True or false A text will achieve multiple functions

Answer 31

True

Question 32

Conative texts cannot be poetic

Answer 32

False Conative text are often to persuade eg advertising may use poetic and conative together.

Question 33

What function may get you to think, feel or act in a certain way?

Answer 33

Conative

Question 34

What other functions might go to gether?

Answer 34

Eg Phatic and emotive So lovely to see you today, it was a fantastic chat! 😀

Question 36

What is a meaning making system?

Answer 36

Language

Question 37

What is arbitrary and governed by conventions?

Answer 37

Language

Question 38

What are the language functions?

Answer 38

The purpose of the message

Question 39

What does language allow us to do?

Answer 39

Convey our thoughts, values, associations cultural background and aspirations

Question 40

Language consists of _____ and ‐_________, according to Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.

Answer 40

Signifier (words written on the page) and signified (the associated concept - thing the word mean)