Organon model
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The Organon model, formulated by Karl Bühler, defined the communication functions according to which linguistic communication can be described. Bühler's work influenced Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson
Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.As a pioneer of the structural analysis of language, which became the dominant trend of twentieth-century linguistics, Jakobson was among the most influential linguists of the century...

 for his Communication Model.

Bühler identified the following three communicative functions:
  • the Expressive Function (Ausdrucksfunktion)
  • the Referential Function (Darstellungsfunktion, i.e. describing function)
  • the Conative Function (Appellfunktion, i.e. appealing function).
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