Halliday's Taxonomy on FUNCTIONALISM

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Instrumental

  • Language used to fulfil a speaker’s needs

    • Directly concerned with obtaining food, drink, comfort

      • ‘i want’

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Regulatory

  • Language used to influence the behaviour of others

    • Persuading / Commanding / Requesting other people do as you want

      • ‘Daddy swing’ — child on swing

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Interactional

  • Language used to develop social relationships and ease interaction

    • The phatic dimension of talk ‘Hello’

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Personal 

  • Language used to express personal preferences

    • Conveys attitudes, feelings

      • ‘I’m sad’

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Informative

  • Language used to communicate information 

    • Relaying or requesting information

      • ‘I got a new doll’

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Heuristic

  • Language used to learn and explore the environment

    • Using language to learn, may be in the form of questions or answers or running commentary

      • ‘Wassat’

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Imaginitive

  • Language used to explore the imagination

    • May also accompany play as children create imaginary worlds / may arise from story telling