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Types & functions

Verbal language

FUNCTIONS:

  • Expressive: it is what it says or tells the issuer; indicates our attitude to what we say. In radio are typical programs that give our opinion, discussions, interviews ...

  • Informative: refers to the message itself. Send spells or something. Most characteristic are the news programs.

  • Appeals: run the receiver; tries to provoke a response or reaction to this. Programs that encourage the direct or indirect participation of the listeners.

Musical language

Music in radio can be:

  • Objective: own sense by itself, regardless of feelings or ideas. It exhibits a concrete fact with one possible interpretation.
  • Subjective: it expresses and supports moods, creates emotional environments.

FUNCTIONS:

  • Expressive: creates the climate or the sound environment around the message.

  • Grammar: music replaces punctuation in oral message and sound. The most characteristic example is the burst and musical curtain.

  • Descriptive: music completely replaces the word. Create alone what we want to convey. Places us in a particular space or environment (time, place, nature, inside, outside ...)

  • Environmental: part of the message, the environment; with it achieves greater realism.

  • Reflective: moments for the listener to reflect on the message heard.

Sound effects

FUNCTIONS:

  • Narrative: possesses the virtues of grammatical function. Sound effects are used to indicate scene changes, in time and space.

  • Expressive: creates alone environments; has a communicative value itself (eg a shot).

  • Descriptive: describes environments, transmits messages (applause, mistakes ...)

Silence

Silence can be:

  • Objective: absence of music and noise. It has more connotations.

  • Subjective: used with intentionality environmental or dramatic.

FUNCTIONS:

  • Narrative: account actions that take place in time.
  • Descriptive: teaches the appearance of beings and things, can express feelings.
  • Rhythmic: supports the pace of the action.
        
  • Expressive: can bring ambiguity, drama ...
  • Pause.
        
  • Error.
        
  • Reflective: helps to evaluate the message.

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