Conveying Information and Expressing Social Relationships
1. Expressive (express speaker's feelings--I feel great today.)2. Directive (get others to do things--Clean up your room.)3. Referential (provide information--The apples are on the table.)4. Metalinguistic (comments on language--Nouns can be mass or count.)5. Poetic (aesthetic language--poems, mottos, rhymes--A stitch in time saves nine.)6. Phatic (language for solidarity and empathy--Yo, bro. Put 'er there.)