Functions of Languages

Functions of languages 

*Language must be investigated in all the variety of its functions .

  

*The ADRESSER sends a MESSAGE to the ADDRESSEE. To be operative the message requires a CONTEXT refered to (“referent” in another, somewhat, ambiguo, nomenclature). Seizable by the addressee, and either verbal o capable of being verbalized; a CODE fully, or at least parcially, common to the addresser and addressee; and finally, a CONTACT, a physical channel and psychological connexion between the addresser and the addressee. Enabling both of them to enter and stay in comunication.

                      CONTEXT

                                                MESSAGE


ADRESSER ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADDRESSEE

                                                CONTACT

                                                    CODE