Functions of Language

Language must be investigated in all the variety of its functions. The addresser sends a message to the addressee. To be operative the message requieres a context referred to (referent' in another, somewhat ambiguous, nomenclature), seizable by the addressee, and either verbal or capable of being verbalized, a code fully, or at least partially, common to the addresser and addressee, and finally to a contact, a physical channel and psychological connexion between the addresser and addresse, enabling both of them to enter and stay in communication.