By H. G. Widdowson
Written through a number one researcher within the box, this interesting exam of the kin among grammar, textual content, and discourse is designed to impress serious dialogue on key concerns in discourse research which aren't consistently truly pointed out and tested.
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But these aspects co-occur in texts in complex relationships which cannot be grammatically accounted for. An S/F grammar analyses language as networks of options which constitute distinct systems associated with three metafunctions. The analysis requires disjunctive categorization. Some allowance can no doubt be made for tactical cross-classification, but this must of its nature be limited. Essentially linguistic analysis is disjunctive. Language experience, on the other hand, is not: in language use, we commonly find a complex functional conjunction of features across categories.
Halliday talks about evaluation, the higher level of analysis, as requiring an interpretation of the ‘systematic relationship’ between text and context. In what respects the relationship between text and context is systematic is a key issue in discourse analysis, but systematic or not, it is hard to see how it can be systemic in an S/F grammar sense. We might agree with Bloor and Bloor that significance is the meaning a text takes on when it is used in association with context. It is a function of what Halliday calls evaluation, and it is necessarily a pragmatic matter.
But these aspects co-occur in texts in complex relationships which cannot be grammatically accounted for. An S/F grammar analyses language as networks of options which constitute distinct systems associated with three metafunctions. The analysis requires disjunctive categorization. Some allowance can no doubt be made for tactical cross-classification, but this must of its nature be limited. Essentially linguistic analysis is disjunctive. Language experience, on the other hand, is not: in language use, we commonly find a complex functional conjunction of features across categories.