Finally there is the mode, which is linked to the textual function. Essentially, the mode is how a text communicates information to the audience (119). Halliday describes the mode as “what part the language is playing, what it is that the participants are expecting language to do for them in that situation” (Halliday and Hasan, 12). Additionally, this entails the form or medium the text is presented in (Schirato and Yell, 119). According to Schirato and Yell, the mode of a language needs to encompass more than just what the language is doing (120). Because language can come in so many forms such as written or spoken, and writing can again be further divided into many forms again such as advertisements, novels, poems and emails to name a
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The mode of the passage is a novel. However the mode could also be seen as a written dialogue between two characters. In particular, it can be detailed further that the mode is that of a Victorian novel. This can be seen by the social cues in the dialogue. For example, the formality of the way the characters addresses each other as “Miss Eyre” and “Mr Rochester”, this was an essential part of polite Victorian society. Furthermore there is the over flourish of words in the discourse which was common during this period. For example, when Mr Rochester says “the first time I, or Rumour, plainly intimated to you that it was my intention to put my old bachelor 's neck into the sacred noose, to enter into the holy estate of matrimony” (Bronte, 220). Additionally, words like “matrimony” is quite an old fashion word for …show more content…
Consequently he changes the field of the discourse to his feeling of resistibility to assist her in gaining new employment “when a dependent does her duty as well as you have done yours, she has a sort of claim upon her employer for any little assistance he can conveniently render her” (221). Further Rochester also shows that he struggles to keep his affection for Jane in check and keep the discourse professional “my — that is, Miss Eyre” (220).
It can perhaps be suggested that this reluctance of the speakers to fully show their emotional dependence on each other reflects the social context they are applicable to. Firstly, in Victorian society it is considered to be rash to be upfront about ones feelings. Secondly the difference between social standing between Rochester and Jane
The mode of the passage is a novel. However the mode could also be seen as a written dialogue between two characters. In particular, it can be detailed further that the mode is that of a Victorian novel. This can be seen by the social cues in the dialogue. For example, the formality of the way the characters addresses each other as “Miss Eyre” and “Mr Rochester”, this was an essential part of polite Victorian society. Furthermore there is the over flourish of words in the discourse which was common during this period. For example, when Mr Rochester says “the first time I, or Rumour, plainly intimated to you that it was my intention to put my old bachelor 's neck into the sacred noose, to enter into the holy estate of matrimony” (Bronte, 220). Additionally, words like “matrimony” is quite an old fashion word for …show more content…
Consequently he changes the field of the discourse to his feeling of resistibility to assist her in gaining new employment “when a dependent does her duty as well as you have done yours, she has a sort of claim upon her employer for any little assistance he can conveniently render her” (221). Further Rochester also shows that he struggles to keep his affection for Jane in check and keep the discourse professional “my — that is, Miss Eyre” (220).
It can perhaps be suggested that this reluctance of the speakers to fully show their emotional dependence on each other reflects the social context they are applicable to. Firstly, in Victorian society it is considered to be rash to be upfront about ones feelings. Secondly the difference between social standing between Rochester and Jane