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8 Jakobson's Constitutive Factors Model (1960)

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  1. The context: the relation between a message and the context is `representational'.
  2. The speaker: the relation between a message and the speaker is `expressive'.
  3. The addressee: the relation between a message and the addressee is `conative'.
  4. The contact (channel): the relation between a message and the channel is `phatic'.
  5. The code: the relation between a message and a code in which messages are formulated is `metalingual'.
  6. The message: the relation between a message and itself is `poetic'.



Dafydd Gibbon
Sat May 18 21:14:28 MET DST 1996