【正文】
propaganda to influence public opinion. Obviously, the expressive and the evocative functions often go together, ., you may express, for example, your personal feelings about a political issue but end up by evoking the same feeling in, or imposing it on, your listener. That’ s also the case with the other way round. ? This means people speak to “ do things” or perform actions. On certain occasions the utterance itself as an action is more important than what words or sounds constitute the uttered sentence. When asked if a third Yangtze bridge ought to be built in Wuhan, the mayor may say “ OK” , which means more than speech, and more than an average social individual may do for the construction. The judge’ s imprisonment sentence, the president’ s war or independence declaration, etc., are performatives as well(see ’ s speech Act Theory, Hu Zhuanglin, ecal.,pp271278). 。t say “Hello” to a friend you meet, or if you don’t answer his “Hi”, you ruin your friendship. ? 好 The “ directive function” means that language may be used to get the hearer to do something. Most imperative sentences perform this function, e. g., “ Tell me the result when you finish.” Other syntactic structures or sentences of other sorts can, according to and ’ s “ indrect speech act theory” (see Hu Zhuanglin et al.,pp271278) at least, serve the purpose of direction too, ., “ If I were you, I would have blushed to the bottom of my ears!” ? Language serves an “ informational function” when used to tell something, characterized by the use of declarat