Halliday's taxonomy of purpose
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- Created on: 05-12-12 14:34
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- Halliday's taxonomy of purpose
- Instrumental
- When a child uses language to express their needs. ("Want hat!")
- Regulatory
- When a child uses language to tell others what to do ("Give me car!")
- Interactional
- When language is used to make contact and form relationships.("Ello, I'm Gemma")
- Personal
- The use of language to express feelings, opinions and individual identities. ("Me happy")
- Heuristic
- To gain knowledge of the environment ("Is that flower?")
- Imaginative
- When language is used to tell stories and jokes. ("Look mummy, poo!")
- Representation-al
- Using language to convey facts and information. ("I eated it all")
- Instrumental
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