1. Instrumental: Language used to satisfy material needs.
2. Regulatory: Language used to control others.
3. Interactional: Language with no actual meaning as such - e.g, fillers during awkward silences.
4. Personal: Emotional language which releases stress, involuntary responses to pain, fear, beauty, etc. As well as expressing 'the self'.
5. Heuristic: Language seeking information.
6. Imaginative: Language of creative writing, etc.
7. Language which communicates information or ideas.
8. Performative: Language used to control others.
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