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or sharing through speech, where the main function is social contact
and emotional togetherness.
7. Communicative Orientation
Every contribution to a dialog has several communicative orientation
functions. The four most important types are (Allwood, 2000):
(i) One or more responsive functions (all contributions except the
first)
(ii) One or more expressive functions, mostly involving the expression
of emotional or epistemic attitudes
(iii) One or more evocative functions
(iv) One or more referential functions.
The four communicative orientations can be seen in Figure 1 below.
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