Features of spoken language

• Grices maxim
• quantity- where one tries to be as informative as one possibly can, and gives as much information as is needed, and no more.
• quality- where someone tries to be truthful, and does not give information that is false or that is not supported by evidence.
• relation- where one tries to be relevant, and says things that are pertinent to the discussion.
• manner - avoid obscurity of oppression, avoid ambiguity, be brief, and be orderly.

• Halliday functions of speech
• instrumental- When the Person already has power over usually due to authority or law, example would be a teacher in a classroom.
• regulatory- where language is used to tell others what to do.
• interactional- Language used to develop social relationships and ease the process of interaction. Concerned with the phatic dimension of talk.
• personal-  Language used to express the personal preferences and identity of the speaker.
• heuristic-  Language used to learn and explore the environment.
• imaginative- Language used to explore the imagination
• representational-  Language used to exchange information