The Hallidayan Model of Language and Discourse PDF

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Resúmen sobre la teoría de la traducción y el modelo de Halliday. En inglés....

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The Hallidayan Model of Language and Discourse

● Discourse analysis: looks at the way language communicates meaning and social and power relations ● Systemic functional grammar ● Study of language as communication ● Meaning in the writer’s linguistic choices ● Relating these choices to a wider sociocultural framework

Strong interrelation between the surface-level realizations of the linguistic functions and the sociocultural framework. ● Register ○ Field: what is being written about ○ Tenor: who communicates + to whom ○ Mode: form of communication ● Each variable is associated with a strand of meaning (metafunctions of discourse semantics): ○ Field —> ideational meaning through transitivity patterns. ○ Tenor—> interpersonal meaning through modality patterns. ○ Mode—> textual meaning through thematic and information structures as well as cohesion....