To influence or control others, our environment, and ourselves. To give and receive information. To express our feelings. To express creativity and to imagine. To learn the rules for managing conversations and relationships.

Evasion, Equivocation, Euphemisms

High language is formal, polite, or “mainstream” and is used in more formal contexts. Low language is informal and easygoing, frequently involves slang, and is used in more comfortable environments.

Interruptions. Intensifiers. Qualifiers, hedges, and disclaimers. Tag questions. >Resistance messages

Phonological rules (rules about how words should be pronounced). Syntactic rules (rules about the placement of words in a sentence)