Text functions

Question 1

What are the main text functions?

Answer 1

aesthetic/poetic
phatic
appellative
referential
metalinguistic
expressive

Question 2

What are some features of the referential text function?

Answer 2

focus on infos and facts
format often standard or conventionalized
in objective, non-literary texts

Question 3

What are some features of the expressive text function?

Answer 3

feelings of writer, author-centered
unusual collocations, original metaphors
in subjective texts

Question 4

What are some features of the appellative text function?

Answer 4

relation between writer and reader
directives (imperatives, emphatic declaratives, etc.)
in argumentative and instructive texts

Question 5

What are some features of the aesthetic / poetic text function?

Answer 5

designed to please the senses
sound effects, onomatopoeia, metaphors
in subjective texts

Question 6

What are some features of the phatic text function?

Answer 6

standard phrases
maintain contact with readership
both in subjective and objective texts

Question 7

What are some features of the metalinguistic text function?

Answer 7

language about language as an object of study
grammatical and text terms
in subjective and objective texts