The cognitive function is fulfilled characteristically by 3rd-person nonmodal utterances (i.e., utterances in the indicative mood, making no use of modal verbs); the expressive function by 1st-person utterances in the subjunctive or optative mood; and the conative function by 2nd-person utterances in the imperative.
Others are less troubled by this because they focus on how the expressive function of punishment under law serves society by making punishment of whatever degree a "symbol of infamy," whatever its other effects may be (Feinberg 1965).
In glass buildings, floor slabs perform the expressive function formerly taken by walls.
They shared Matisse's interest in the expressive function of colour in painting, and they first exhibited together in 1905.
"What renders language possible," he writes, "is that which separates sounds from bodies and organizes them into propositions, freeing them for the expressive function" (LS 181).
Hybrid theories that put the expressive function of normative language into the semantics (discussed below) also involve work of this sort.
Nusseibeh claims that the expressive function of the state, i.e. national self-determination, is secondary.
He writes on criminal law and procedure, social norms, the expressive function of law, inequality, and law and literature.
To convey the message of condemnation, to fulfill the expressive function of punishment, the punishment must be proportionate to the offense.
and from the traditions of the various offices of government (law courts, assembly houses, city halls, etc).. Governments that exercise power by force rather than by consent tend to employ the expressive functions of architecture to emphasize their power; they tend to produce buildings of a monumentality disproportionate to their service to the community.
