Libro Paganoni 2

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Meaning

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What a word might possibly signify in any text

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Sense

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What a word signifies in the text we are looking at

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Discourse is

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The text in a certain context

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Accountable

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When we exhibit odd linguistic behaviour and so we often need to explain this odd behaviour

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Coherence is the term for

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Those links that exist between the text and the text's receiver ability to make sense of the words

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Ideational metafunction

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The language you choose to rapresent the world. You have different ways to picture the world around you/the things that happens in front of you, you make linguistic choices about how you picture it. Also (from Chpt. 3 the ability of language to communicate meaning)

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Six processes

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Material: verbs of doing (jump, drive)

Metal: verbs of thinking and feeling (something is being done but it can't be seen by outsiders)

Verbal: verbs of saying (talk, sing shout)

Relational: verbs of being (be, appear, seem)

Behavioural: verb of conscious but often invisible action (stare, listen, watch)

Existential: verbs that point out the existence of something (there,)

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Schemata

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We almostinevitably must say less than we mean. For making sure that people understand what we say, we rely on schema, that is themental picture or plan that people have about a topic or process.Schemata are those mental plans we hold in our headsabout how the world and parts of it function

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Schemataare said to be hierarchical, this means that.

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in order to have some knowledge we have to have other prior knowledge

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moods

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Declarative: usedto indicate. The subject comes before the verb.

Interrogative: ask questions. Verb comes before the subject.

Imperative:prompt the receivers to take some action. Typically begin with a verb and don’thave a subject

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Propositionalmeaning

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clause that can be said to be true or false (declarative)

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Wealways have to consider the ...to make sense of non-proportional meaning.

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context

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Implicitcomparison is ... and is used mostly in...

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when you don't make explicit the thing you are comparing. Advertising

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Thesituational context is

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the physical world that surrounds the participants in the discourse. Speakercan indicate things present in the locale and listeners who are in the sameplace can interpret them. But participants don’t have to share the samephysical space, as the situational context can be extended to include eachparticipant’s location, despite being in different places.

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Theinterpersonal context is

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the specific shared knowledge that discourse participants have about each other and their lives.

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The culturalcontext is

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the shared cultural knowledge that the speakers have. Smaller groups of people with shared knowledge and social behaviours.