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As the language is a social phenomenon, it changes over time due to various factors and periods. All languages fulfill two higher-level or meta-functions in our lives. One is to express our interpretation of the world as we experience it (sometimes called the ‘ideational’ or the ‘representational’ function); the other is to interact with others in order to bring about changes in the environment (the ‘interpersonal’ function). The organization of the message in such a way as to enable representation and interaction to cohere represents a third – the ‘textual’ meta-function, and this is given its place in a functional grammar [Chomsky, 2002].

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10.5281/zenodo.6493129

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