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GLOSSARY OF TERMS - FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS (DRAFT)

1. Text.
Complete linguistic interaction (spoken or written).
2. Ideational meaning.
Relationship between the text and the real world.
3. Interpersonal meaning.
Role relationship between participants in the interaction.
4. Textual meaning.
How the text is organized linguistically.
5. Register.
Definition of a text in terms of field, mode and tenor (defined below). In the
relationship between grammatical level of language and context we can stablish an
intermediate level, called register.
6. Genre.
The cultural purpose of a text.
7. Context.
Environment in which a piece of language occurs.
8. Semiotic system.
A group of signs and rules to combine them in order to make different meanings.
9. Texture.
Property that distinguishes texts from non-texts.
10. Cohesion.
The way the elements within a text bind together.
11. Reference.
How the writer or the speaker introduces participants in a text and keep track of them.
12. Lexical cohesion.
A text has lexical cohesion when the lexical items are related consistently to the text's
field.
13. Conjunctive cohesion.
How the speaker or the writer of a text makes logical relationships between the parts
of a text.
14. Coherence.
Relationship between a text and its context.
15. Registerial coherence
16. Generic coherence
17. Field.
What the text is about.
18. Mode.
The role of language in an interaction.
19. Tenor.
Role relationship between the participants in an interaction.
20. Lexico-grammar.
What distinguishes a simple semiotic system like the traffic lights from human
language, where words can be combined to form structures with new meanings.
21. Transitivity.
Relationship between the clauses (grammatical level) and register through dimension
of field or contextual meaning.
22. Clause.
Grammatical realization of the meaning in a text.
23. Clause complex.
Assosiation of clauses in sequence.
24. Mood.
The most concrete (grammatical) level of interpersonal meaning.
25. MOOD.
Part of a clause that is not lost when the other participant of the interaction takes
position over a point.
26. Residue.
Part of a clause apart from the MOOD.
27. Syntagmatic relations.
Relations by which signs can go together in sequences.
28. Paradigmatic relations.
Reasons why some signs stand as opposed to different ones.

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