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Halliday's:
language communicating meaning and social & power relations
Meaning in writer's linguistic choices
Text's function
Sociocultural framework
+ time & place
of writing
conditions
text type -> communicative function
determines
strand of meaning
forms
choices of words,
grammar and syntax
covert
overt
Register
1. Establish profile of ST Register
2. Establish function of ST
3. Now compare ST to TT
4. Statement of quality
5. Categorization
ST
translation
TT
"cultural filter"
to recreate, reproduce or
represent
original function
-> it reveals itself as a translation
Cohesion
- word level
- above-word level
- grammar
- thematic structure
- cohesion
- pragmatic
- thematic considerations
- nominalizations
- verbal forms and their position in sentences
"Challenging it is. Boring it isn't"
markedness
!
cohesive ties
shifts of cohesion & coherence
I know Bill followed the match. He saw it on TV.
Arctic foxes are threatened by red ones .
For every dollar donated federally, three more are donated by the State.
and, but, however, at first, then..
repetition, synonym,
general word, collocation
changes in cohesion ->
functional shifts in text
Engl. SL: ' Fat or thin? '
gender-inflected TL: woman / man / kid/ animal /object ?!
also problematic:
shifts of verb-inflected languages
cohesion <--> coherence
I like eating because my favorite color is blue.
X
semantic relationships
formal lexical
+ grammatical relationships
"Pragmatics is the study of language in use. It is the study of meaning, not as generated by the linguistics system but as conveyed and manipulated by participants in a communicative situation."
(Baker 2011:230)
'Let me now turn to bananas'
dispute between EU & US
over 'banana imports'
What does the speaker imply to say?
'set of rules' for a
co-operative conversation
1. Quantity
2. Quality
2. Relevance
4. Manner
5. Politeness*
Discourse and Register analysis approaches
The Hallidayan Model
House's model
Baker's analysis
thematic structure
cohesion
pragmatics
field- (what ?)
tenor- (who to whom?)
mode- (form of comm.)