Halliday's functions

Question 1

Halliday’s functions

Answer 1

Regulatory, Personal, Imaginative, Interactional, Instrumental, Representational, Heuristic

Question 2

Instrumental

Answer 2

Language used to fulfil a need on the part of the speaker.
Usually to obtain food or drink.
‘ want juice’.

Question 3

Regulatory

Answer 3

Language used to influence the behaviour of others by persuading/ commanding/ requesting.
‘put down!’.

Question 4

Interactional

Answer 4

Language used to develop social relationships.
Concerned with the phatic dimension of talk.
‘Night, love you’.

Question 5

Personal

Answer 5

Language is used to express a personal preference and identity.
Here I am function.
‘me like that’.

Question 6

Representational

Answer 6

Language used to exchange information.
Relaying or requesting information.
‘Mummy’.

Question 7

Heuristic

Answer 7

Language to learn and explore the environment.
Question and answer or running commentary.
‘Why?’.

Question 8

Imaginative

Answer 8

Language used to explore the imagination.
May accompany play or arise from storytelling.
‘I’m Superman’.