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Which Jakobson function of language is linked to the factor of context?Read the answer and worked solution →A teacher says, "The autumn leaves have all fallen now." Which function of language is mainly at work?Read the answer and worked solution →Slogans and poetry mainly use which function of language?Read the answer and worked solution →Which function relates to the addresser, as in the exclamation "Wow, what a view!"?Read the answer and worked solution →Vocatives and imperatives such as "Tom! Come inside and eat!" best illustrate which function?Read the answer and worked solution →Greetings and small talk about the weather mainly serve which function of language?Read the answer and worked solution →A teacher explains the meaning of the word "noun" using language. Which function is this?Read the answer and worked solution →The phatic function is associated with which factor of communication?Read the answer and worked solution →Which scholar's organon model influenced Jakobson's list of language functions?Read the answer and worked solution →Which three functions did Jakobson add to Bühler's organon model?Read the answer and worked solution →How many functions of language did Roman Jakobson define?Read the answer and worked solution →Halliday's systemic functional linguistics treats language chiefly as what kind of system?Read the answer and worked solution →Which linguist devised systemic functional linguistics?Read the answer and worked solution →In Halliday's view, which metafunction enacts social relations between speakers?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Halliday metafunction construes our experience of inner and outer reality?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Halliday metafunction creates a coherent flow of discourse from the other two?Read the answer and worked solution →For Halliday, meaning in language is fundamentally a matter of what?Read the answer and worked solution →According to SFL, language evolved under pressure of what?Read the answer and worked solution →Roland Barthes distinguished hearing from listening. How did he describe listening?Read the answer and worked solution →A pupil understood an instruction but ignored it. What happened?Read the answer and worked solution →Listening is done by choice, while hearing is mostly what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which processes does interpersonal listening involve?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is a sign of poor interpersonal listening?Read the answer and worked solution →Barthes's first level of listening, detecting familiar or unfamiliar environmental sound cues, is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →A child waits for jingling keys that signal the mother's return. Which Barthes level of listening is this?Read the answer and worked solution →The third level of listening in Barthes's scheme involves what?Read the answer and worked solution →Listening is best seen as which kind of process?Read the answer and worked solution →An active listener should be attentive, nonjudgmental and what else?Read the answer and worked solution →Besides explicit words, an active listener also analyses what in the speaker's talk?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is a benefit of active listening in a conversation?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which Jakobson function of language is linked to the factor of context?

  1. Poetic function
  2. Emotive function
  3. Conative function
  4. Referential function
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Correct answer: D. Referential function

1. Jakobson paired each function with one factor of communication. 2. Context goes with the referential function, which describes a situation, object or mental state. 3. Emotive relates to the speaker, conative to the receiver and poetic to the message form. _Source: Wikipedia, Jakobson's functions of language, The six functions of language_

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A teacher says, "The autumn leaves have all fallen now." Which function of language is mainly at work?

  1. Phatic function
  2. Conative function
  3. Metalingual function
  4. Referential function
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Correct answer: D. Referential function

1. The sentence simply describes a situation in the world. 2. Describing situations and objects is the referential function. 3. Phatic is for greetings and keeping contact; conative is for commands. _Source: Wikipedia, Jakobson's functions of language, The six functions of language_

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Slogans and poetry mainly use which function of language?

  1. Referential function
  2. Phatic function
  3. Poetic function
  4. Emotive function
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Correct answer: C. Poetic function

1. The poetic function focuses on the message for its own sake. 2. It is the operative function in poetry as well as slogans. 3. Referential function describes facts, and phatic function keeps contact. _Source: Wikipedia, Jakobson's functions of language, The six functions of language_

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