Halliday and grammar Language goes beyond formal rules of correctness. It is a means of representing patterns of experience… It enables human beings to build a mental picture of reality, to make sense of their experience of what goes on around them and inside them (Halliday 1985: 101). E.g., US plates not only provide information,…

What is critical discourse analysis (CDA)? Hyland (2005:4) acts of meaning are always engaged in that: They realize the interests The positions The perspectives The values Of those who enact them The aim of CDA is help reveal some of the hidden values, positions, and perspectives. CDA examines the use of discourse in relation to…

Information packaging: allosentences Principles of communicative dynamism, end-weight, and end-focus Theme and rheme Co-text and context Register (mode, tenor, field) Text typologies Theme and rheme Theme (Halliday and Matthiessen) In English, the clause has the character of a message, which is enunciated by one part of the clause, the theme. In Japanese, the postposition -wa…

Table of Contents Discourse Analysis Texture Intertextuality Coherence Cohesion Intersentential: grammatical and lexical. Intrasentential: topicalization and focalization. Introduction Discourse: any unit of connected speech or writing that is longer than a sentence and that has a coherent meaning and a clear purpose. Discourse analysis focuses on… The knowledge about language beyond the word, clause, phrase,…