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One outline of the functions of Communication follows what might be thought of as a rhetorical approach and is as follows:
- Information
- Education
- Persuasion
- motivation
- instruction
- raising morale
- advice
- warning
Another (see http://www.nvcc.edu/home/aeldridge/communication/nature/functions.htm), focuses more on needs:
An outline of the interpersonal functions of commmunication (see http://www.abacon.com/commstudies/interpersonal/infunctions.html) asserts the following:
- Gaining Information (which often requires disclosing information; self-disclosure)
- Building a Context of Understanding (via relationship messages that are a subtext of many "content" messages).
- Asserting identify (by adopting "roles" and creating and maintaining "face").
- Social needs, including inclusion, control, and affection.
According to Del Hymes ethnography of communication (see http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~johnca/spch100/hymes.htm), communication serves:
- an expressive function when message creators focus on themselves
- a directive function when message creators focus on message consumers
- a phatic (contact) function when message channels are concerned with message channels
- a metalinguistic when codes are focused on codes
- a contextual when settings are focused on settings
- a poetic when message-forms are focused on forms
- a referential when topics are focused on topics
- a metacommunicative when events are focused on an event
could you elaborate more.. .
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