Types & functions

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.

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.

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 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.