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Foregrounding, as I understand it, is prominence that is motivated
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The human sciences have to assume at least an equal responsibility in establishing the foundations of knowledge.
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The interpersonal function [of language] is the function to establish, maintain, and specify relations between members of societies
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The grammatical system has … a functional input and a structural output; it provides the mechanism for different functions to be combined in one utterance
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[A register is constituted by] the linguistic features which are typically associated with a configuration of situational features - with particular values of the field, mode and tenor.
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[interpersonal meaning] embodies all use of language to express social and personal relations, including all forms of the speaker's intrusion into the speech situation and the speech act.
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The theme is what is being talked about, the point of departure for the clause as message, and the speaker has within certain limits the option of selecting any element in the clause as thematic.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Michael Halliday
Born:
April 13, 1925
Died:
April 15, 2018
(aged 93)
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