These two functions cannot be fully separated. When one insults or defames another, one is passing on information about that person. When one passes on unfavorable information about another, that person is being enframed within the discourse, and generally for the purpose of diminishing their self image or their image in the eyes of another. They are being enframed as less than what they are assumed to be in order to accomplish some end of the speaker. Information enframes as a manifestation of the Voice of the Subject, and we fail to recognize the enframement of the Other because we know it as information.
Evolutionary processes are generally teleonomic.
Teleonomics is Dawkins' terminology for teleology without intentionality. Evolution can be viewed as teleological in the sense that certain interests are being served through the processes of sexual and natural selection such as selecting the best male genes, overriding female mate selection and choice, negating male overrides, adjusting to environmental changes, and the reproductive survival of the species. It ought to be obvious on its face that symbolic representation evolved for doing rather than saying as saying requires symbolic representation to already be in place. Saying entails enframing, therefore enframing or doing is primary and saying is secondary. Communicating information is nearly always done for a purpose.