... Spoken language, on the other hand, consists of short, often fragmentary utterances, in a range of pronunciations. There is often a great deal of repetition and overlap between one speaker and ... understanding of the benefits of cooperation. Examples of such content include how insects cooperate among each other, how environmental destruction in one part of the world impacts plants and ... functions, which are primarily concerned with the transfer of information, and the interactional function, in which the primary purpose of speech is the maintenance of social relationships. These...