DA Class 4
Language, Context, Coherence, Texture:Cohesion
Text as an instantiation
Context of Culture
Context of Situation
Text -> Textual Function--> creating "Texture": Cohesion & Thematic Structure
Discourse-Semantic Approach to Cohesion (Martin & Rose, 2007)
Ideation: Lexical Cohesion
- semantics of lexical relations as employed to construe institutional activity. Ways in which taxonomic relations organize the field of discourse: lexical relations and collocation (nuclear relation: elaboration, extension, enhancement). -> experiential meaning
Identification - Grammatical Reference
- resources for tracking participants in discourse. -> textual meaning
Conjunction
- resources for connecting messages, via addition, comparison, temporality, causality. Internal (pragmatic/rhetorical) and external (semantic/propositional) relations. -> logical meaning
Conjunction
(Conjunction according to Logico-Semantic Relations. In Halliday & Mathiessen (2004) Introduction to Functional Grammar, 3rd ed)
(Conjunction according to Taxis. In Halliday & Mathiessen (2004) Introduction to Functional Grammar, 3rd ed)
And a warning regarding Taxis by Halliday and Mathiessen, below: