According to the experts' language functions

Language is a part of people's lives speakers. For the people of Indonesia, Indonesian has the position and function in society, nation and state of Indonesia. Language which is a symbol of the speech sound system is used to communicate by the wearer. Here is the function of language according to experts:

# DEL Hymes & GUY COOK

That language serves as a:

Contextual (situation)

Referential (message)

Emotive (speakers)

Conative / directive (Mitra said)

Phatic (path)

Poetic (form of messages)

Metalinguistic (aspect language)

# NEWMARK (By using the theory BUHLER & Jakobson)

Characterize the function of language becomes:

expressive function

informative function

vocative function

aesthetic function

phatic function

function metalingual

# Ernawati. W

Language function consists of several functions as follows:

as a unifying

As the giver of distinctiveness

As carrier authority

As a frame of reference

# Kneller

That language has three functions, namely:

symbolic

emoti

affective

# HALLIDAY

That language has a function as:

instrumental function

regulatory functions

interactional function

personal function

heuristic function

imaginative function

representational function