Syntax 3 Flashcards
(20 cards)
What is the basic unit of analysis in functional grammar
the text
What is the text in functional grammar
a piece of language
Contexts of situation which structure texts
Mode
Field
Tenor
Mode of a text
The nature of the text itself and the role language plays in it.
text type and organization
Field of a text
The field of human experience encompassed by the text.
What activity? who, what, where?
Tenor of a text
The social relationship between the speaker/writer and the
addressee.
What is ideational metafunction
It explains how language is used to represent experience
Processes of Ideational metafunction
Material (push, beat)
relational (be, seem)
Projecting (say, think)
Participants in ideational metafunction
Actor
Goal
circumstances in ideational metafunction
time, place and manner adverbials
aspects within ideational metafunction
Processes
Participants
Circumstances
What is Interpersonal metafunction?
Enacts social roles and interactions.
Types of interaction within interpersonal metafunction
- Giving information
- Offering goods/services
- Demanding information
- Demanding goods/services
What determines the mood in interpersonal metafunction?
The relationship between the subject and finite verb.
Subject+finite
Types of moods
Declarative
imperative
interrogative
What is the stance?
the way speakers position themselves in relation to their own or other people’s beliefs, opinions and statements about things or ideas in ongoing communicative interaction with other speakers
What are mood adjuncts
Temporal, modal, degree modifiers
probably, always
What are comment adjuncts
Speaker’s comment on truth/value/attitude
frankly, unfortunately
Stance is indicated by means of
Polarity
Modality (could, mood or comment adjuncts
Types of theme
textual, topical, interpersonal
