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Explain within the Hallidayan framework, what you understand by the textual metafunction in comparison to the interpersonal and ideational metafunctions.
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Explain within the Hallidayan framework, what you understand by the textual metafunction in comparison to the interpersonal and ideational metafunctions. Halliday developed the linguistic theory that became known as Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG). There are a number of angles one can take to describe Halliday's model of language. This essay will focus on the semantic system within the linguistic system. That is, the functional aspect of SFG. Rather than taking a critical look at Halliday's theory, this essay attempts to understand the functional elements and apply them to the analysis of two texts. This is begun by outlining Halliday's model of language and how the metafunctions fit into it. The essay then explores the textual metafunction and its components more closely. The essay limits itself to register, reference, ellipsis, conjunctive adjuncts and lexical cohesion. A consideration of thematic and information structures follows. The last section of the essay interprets the theory...
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