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12 - Cohesion and Conjunction

from Part II - Discourse Analysis within SFL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2019

By
Maite Taboada
Edited by
Geoff Thompson ,
Wendy L. Bowcher ,
Lise Fontaine  and
David Schönthal
Geoff Thompson
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool
Wendy L. Bowcher
Affiliation:
Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Lise Fontaine
Affiliation:
Cardiff University
David Schönthal
Affiliation:
Cardiff University
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Summary

This chapter presents an overview of discourse semantic systems (negotiation, appraisal, conjunction, ideation, identification, and periodicity), positioning them within the overall architecture of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) in terms of stratification and metafunction. It discusses their development out of earlier work on cohesion, briefly outlines each system, and discusses the kinds of structure realizing them. Their contribution to meaning beyond the clause is then illustrated through a step-by-step synthesis of a factorial explanation dealing with damage to the archaeological site of Pompeii. The synthesis makes reference to the key register and genre variables construed ideationally, enacted interpersonally, and composed textually by discourse semantic systems and structures. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the nature of discourse semantic structures as relations of indefinite extent that are abduced by readers in the interpretation of texts.
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The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics , pp. 311 - 332
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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