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2. Sentence function - Wikipedia

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   The declarative sentence is the most common kind of sentence in language, in most situations, and in a way can be considered the default function of a sentence. What this means essentially is that when a language modifies a sentence in order to form a question or give a command, the base form will always be the declarative.

3. Jakobson's functions of language - Wikipedia

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   The six factors of an effective verbal communication. To each one corresponds a communication function (not displayed in this picture). [1] Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described. [2] Each of the functions has an associated factor.

4. Grammatical relation - Wikipedia

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   The result is that an inventory consisting of dozens of distinct syntactic functions is needed for each language. For example, a determiner-noun dependency might be assumed to bear the DET function, and an adjective-noun dependency is assumed to bear the ATTR (attribute) function. These functions are often produced as labels on the dependencies ...

5. Metafunction - Wikipedia

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   Function is considered to be "a fundamental property of language itself". [ 3 ] According to Ruqaiya Hasan , the metafunctions in SFL "are not hierarchised; they have equal status, and each is manifested in every act of language use: in fact, an important task for grammatics is to describe how the three metafunctions are woven together into the ...

6. Help:Cheatsheet - Wikipedia

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   Wiki markup quick reference (PDF download) For a full list of editing commands, see Help:Wikitext; For including parser functions, variables and behavior switches, see Help:Magic words; For a guide to displaying mathematical equations and formulas, see Help:Displaying a formula; For a guide to editing, see Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia

7. Phatic expression - Wikipedia

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   Phatic communion denotationally breaks Grice's conversational maxims, because it gives information that is unnecessary, untrue, or irrelevant.It has important connotational meanings that do not break these maxims [6] and is best understood as an important part of language in its role in establishing, maintaining, and managing bonds of sociality between participants, [7] as well as creating ...